Include DLL Files in Management Pack Bundle with Visual Studio Authoring Extensions (VSAE)

Since I am mostly using Visual Studio with Authoring Extensions to design Management Packs, I was happy to find an easy way to add external dll resource files to a Management Pack Bundle. Marcel Zehner wrote a nice blog post about creating a custom CI class with VSAE.

When I was working on a project for which I had to design some custom Service Manager Console forms I had to bundle a DLL file which contained the custom forms with the Management Pack. This could have been done by just build the Management Pack in Visual Studio and afterwards create the Management Pack bundle with Fastseal.exe to include appropriate the DLL file.

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