Not sure about .NET Core as I haven't used it yet, but you can use ILRepack to merge DLLs into the executable so you don't need to ship a directory full. https

Not sure about .NET Core as I haven't used it yet, but you can use ILRepack to merge DLLs into the executable so you don't need to ship a directory full. https://github.com/gluck/il-repack https://github.com/gluck/il-repack We do this at work with one of our utilities