title: obfuscator and linker for .net
body: <p>I am in need to develop a desktop application which will be quite light-weight but dont want my end users to install full-fledged .net framerwork to run that. I've done a lot of research and my findings are:
  1. using some .net linkers, i can achieve this goal. some of them are salamander, spoon.net(not 100% sure about its functionality), rustemsoft etc.
  2. I am coming across two tools for this: Obfuscator &amp; linker. Now I know obfuscator basically is used to eliminate the reverse-engineering possibilities of a code and to secure it but i've  found that many obfuscators also include .net linker feature</p>
  
  <p>so kindly can anyone enlighten me that for me to achieve my goal: running my .net developed application in end user's Windows (XP to be precise - though its quite defunct), can i use some obfuscators like that of rustemsoft to create a standalone and ready to deploy exe with no dependencies on framework? </p>