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By using CefSharp version 37.0.0 my winforms application is ready to submit in college but I am not getting which files (DLL,exe,pak) are need to be packaged along with project references. I already gone through this article https://github.com/cefsharp/cef-binary/blob/master/README.txt#L104-L106 but still confused in :

  1. Is all .pak files (cef.pak,cef_100_percent.pak,cef_200_percent.pak,devtools_resources.pak and all files from locales folder) are used for developer option?

  2. Can I make separate folder cefSharp reference files?

Amogh
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It's hard to give a definitive complete answer, so: "It depends" on what your application uses. For .pak files e.g. if you are not using the DevTools in your application you can skip devtools_ressources.pak etc. similarly with languages and e.g. WebGL and other of the CEF .dll files.

See https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/issues/527 for a discussion already marked faq-able! it also contains info on setting path for .pak files. You can inspect the binaries etc. of the resulting WinForms application at https://github.com/rfgamaral/SlackUI/releases.

Moving .dll files around is not recommended/supported.

Also see this related SO entry: What is the purpose of the cef.pak file in cefsharp?

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jornh
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In theory, you can see a rundown of all the files here: https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef/src/aefb5ccce879f308f0bcc3ac719c86defe2f9715/tools/distrib/win/README.redistrib.txt?at=master

However, one thing they don't note about not including cef.pak (or disabling pak loading altogether) is that it will cause things like red scrollbars (at least on windows). I've found I need to include cef_100_percent.pak to avoid this.

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