Hello
While playing with some new DotNet 2.0 features like CLR hosting
I developed a utility which might be usefull for others so let me
share here some infos about it. In the Java world there is the
concept of .jar files. These files group classes and resources into
one file and allow execution of classes from the archive. The utility
I developed does the same for the DotNet world by hosting the CLR
in an unmanaged VC++ application. It's called NAR Loader,
can be found at
http://www.min.at/nar
and allows to group assemblies in one archive file (a .nar file which
is a standard zip archive just with a .nar extension) and to run them
right out of the archive. This also simplifies software deployment. The
loader works and is in beta state. You can download and read more
about it under the URL given above.
Maybe it's interesting for others
Richard
