if we can accept managed dll, why can't accept unmanaged dll, isn't it?

Embedding managed dlls and loading it from memory is much more simple in .NET
It's as simple as a Assembly.Load(byte[]) statement, while loading unmanaged dlls are more difficult.
Of course, you can always extract them to a temporary location, and then load them from files, but there are a few problems:

What will clean them, when the app crashes?
How can we check whether we could clean this library? Some other process might be accessing it?

But a clean solution is available:

Embed this package, at a cost of 100kb, as an embedded resource (or merge it using ILMerge or Fody.Costura,...)
Load this package from memory, using Assembly.Load(byte[]).
Load as many unmanaged dlls as you want, from embedded resources.

If the process crashes, the OS automatically reclaims all allocated library. No wasted disk space, no file permission headaches!

But I think the nuget package is unpopular

I am neither Microsoft nor James Newton-King, so I don't expect my packages to get popular quickly, but if it solves some problem, I'll maintain it.

Need to use it in C# with and unmanaged dll #99

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