Bundle the runtime with SQLQueryStress

It took me some time to get SQLQueryStress running on our servers. Nothing to do with the program itself but with the runtime. When opening the program on the server it offered the following

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SQLQueryStress.exe
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To run this application, you must install .NET Core.

Would you like to download it now?
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Yes   No   
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However, pressing Yes did nothing. It could be that we are on a somewhat lockdowned server but it had internet access nonetheless.

After that I download the following as I though .NET 7 would be a suitable runtime. Since that wasn’t the case I downloaded the latest .NET Core 3.1 which reached end of life, meaning it is no longer supported

1. dotnet-sdk-7.0.302-win-x64
2. dotnet-sdk-3.1.426-win-x64

The last one worked. A further complication on a server is that all these downloads are blocked so had to get the installers with a workaround (copy past via remote desktop) at their destination. Installing something on a server is also for some shops, especially a new runtime, a showstopper.

I now read in the Github readme (should have checked that first of course) that .NET 6 Desktop Runtime also suffices.

Bottom line, would it benefit if we pack the runtime with the tool so it is self contained and starts up immediately? That’s natively possibly these days with .NET without a hack as we did for .NET Framework. it will increase the package size, not sure by how much. Haven’t tried the feature and don’t know if it does tree shaking.

Okay if I do a spike on this or are there reasons not to pursue this?

[buckleyGI]

Created PR #148 Can you take a look please?

[ErikEJ]

There should be a link to it in the pull request - it is hosted on appveyor but no yaml file in the repo, sorry.