> You think or your KNOW it's legal?

Unfortunaly, I don't work in MS and I'm not a lawer, so I can only thinking :))

> Is this legal? Shipping individual MS components individually isn't always something that you can do willy-nilly. Packaging up the DLL as a resource could break the license agreement?

I think it's fully legal, becuase it's the same as you link these dlls statically, as in the case of unmanaged c++...

> I was under the impression that you always had to include the entire redistributable in your app?

m$ is crazy :)

anyway, it's good that there is a good solution such as boxedapp...