title: Patching after ILMerge
body: <p>We're looking into using ILMerge (along with NGEN.exe and GAC registration) to improve the startup times of our application.</p>
  
  <p>It looks like we won't be able to merge all of the assemblies into one dll because it will prevent any patching of our application post-deployment.  We've been using msimsp.exe to generate a patch which just replaces dll's that we need to update.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a better way to patch our application that allows for consolidating dll's?</p>
  
  <p>Anybody else have related experiences?</p>