Is there any approach to convert an application developed in .NET into a native executable (sources are included)?
Installing the whole framework (up to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1) takes a lot of time - not always the computers are updated from the internet. Is it possible to call NGen in order to produce independent executables?
Thanks
There is a commercial product that claims to do that here:
http://www.xenocode.com/Obfuscator/
"Deploy .NET applications securely, with no .NET Framework install"
No idea what the drawbacks to this would be though