AppReliance Documentation

Introduction

AppReliance is a tool for verifying a .NET assembly can resolve all of its dependencies. This project came about as part of a Quality Assurance drive where Visual Studio does implicit references, or uses the Global Assembly Cache during the build and thus doesn't include all the necessary files into the output folder.

This tool has been designed to be used as a standalone command line tool, which can also be used as part of a build script.

Getting Started

Downloading AppReliance

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AppReliance is available from the CodePlex Release Page.

Running the console application

AppReliance has a single command line argument which is the filename of the assembly you wish to validate.

Roadmap

Coming soon

Future Possibilities

  • Output the report to XML or Text file.
  • GUI Desktop application.