Further Readings

The .NETZ tool has been described in several articles. Because .NETZ is updated often, the information in these articles may be out of date. Check out the .NETZ documentation for updated usage information.

• Using NetZ with Dynamically Loaded Assemblies, by Marc Clifton in CodeProject, July 2006.

  This article is a user contribution that shows how to find out at run-time, whether an application is being launched from within .NETZ, and how to customize assembly resolving in presence of .NETZ. For .NETZ versions > 0.3.4, the dynamically loaded assemblies can be handled by using the -d option.

• Using Reflection to Reduce the Size of .NET Executables, Journal of Object Technology, Sep/Oct 2005 issue.

  This article reflects some of the latest improvements and changes of .NETZ, and targets a more academically oriented audience, explaining the reasons for some of the decisions taken during the design of .NETZ. It has also statistics about the .NETZ performance and discusses .NETZ in a wider context.

• Reducing the Size of .NET Applications, Dr. Dobb's Journal, March 2005 issue.

  This article is basically an updated and corrected version of the CodeProject article. It was published to Dr. Dobb's Journal to get the attention of professional developers and because of the interest from the editor. The copyright of the original article was handled to the Dr. Dobb's Journal.

• Reducing the Size of .NET Applications, in CodeProject.com, June 2004

  This is the original article about the .NETZ tool, which describes the idea. The article was written before .NETZ tool was developed. It was updated only once after .NETZ tool was created, but is currently not up to date. Nevertheless, this article served as a push to develop .NETZ, and it has generated feedback. Most of the people that get .NETZ are redirected from this site. A less generic tool than .NETZ was used privately for more than one year and a half before this article was first published.