how to transform CLR to EXE

Question

when we create an application in VC#, talking about .net 3.5 in particular, the are comipled to CLR, what i want is that they should be compiled to EXE executable code that doesn't require .NET Framework Environment for them to run. Is it possible

Answer 1

I guess you're asking how to statically link the parts of the framework your application needs. Please see this link from Jon Skeet for info on how to do that: http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/faq/#framework.required

Answer 2

There are 3rd party products that do this. I know of no free ones.

Answer 3

Even if you get a third party product, I think it just packages the .NET runtime in there somehow. I don't know how else it would run.

Why don't you just create an installer that has the .NET framework as a requirement? It should check for it and install it if the user doesn't have it already.