I'm having a bear of a time finding any info about this online - maybe somebody here can help. I've tried searching some c# forums, but the ones I've found haven't addressed this.

In Java, I can easily include extra files in a jar file (like .csv data files). It's trivial in the construction of the jar file and doesn't even involve the manifest.

Now, in .NET, all these things are "assemblies" and I've found instructions on how to create multi-file assemblies (here) but this is only for creating .netmodule files out of source code and combining them into one .exe. There's no mention of adding in data files. The command line linker (al.exe) doesn't have any options except for embedding resource files (which a data file isn't).

Anybody know anything about this?