Say I have a large project containing the types A through Z.
What if, for whatever reason, I want to package and distribute just type A to some client(s)?
Obviously I cannot just compile A into its own DLL unconditionally; it may depend on some other types in my project. But it's unlikely it depends on every type in my project.
What I'm envisioning is some tool that could examine A, identify its dependencies, and somehow compile a minimal DLL with only the types required for the type I want (A) and no more.
So for example if A depends on functionality provided by B and C, and B depends on D, but C and D have no additional dependencies (aside from possibly A, B, or each other), this tool would take A through D and compile just those types into a DLL for me to do with as I see fit.
Is such functionality available through Visual Studio? If not, is there some add-in or external tool capable of doing this? Incidentally, is what I'm asking about even reasonable, or do you feel that something like this would be a bad idea?
Obviously I could always do this manually; it just seems like that would be a lot of work (and if it's a bad idea to begin with, well, then just forget it).
