I discovered a nice utility that accompanies Visual Studio; at least it is in Visual Studio 2015. It is called ilmerge. It specific purposes is to fold an executable along with any dependent DLLs into a new executable that requires no external dependencies. You might need this for those time when you want a single executable on, say, a remote system.
Here is a command that binds two .Net libraries, one a distributed Microsoft API and the other is part of my program.
ilmerge /log:ilmerge.log ` /lib:C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319 ` /target:winexe /targetplatform:v4 ` /out:FreeBytesC.exe ` /ndebug FreeBytes.exe ` FreeBytes.exe FSharp.Core.dll VolLib.dll
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