Linking an application to Windows DLLs

Hi,

I am new to .NET, I have developed my first application; it references the Windows Media Player dll.(C:\WINNT\system32\wmp.dll)

When building the application, an intermediary dll is produced. (Interop.WMPLib.dll).

The consequence is that at run time, the application needs to have access to this newly created dll, therefore it needs to be shipped along with this dll. I expected the application to directly reference the windows DLL (C:\WINNT\system32\wmp.dll).

This defeats the purpose of DLLs if each application needs to be shipped with its own custom DLLs.

Is this the way the .NET framework functions or is there a way of avoiding this intermediary DLL

Thank you for your answers,

Ben