| Author: Priya 04 Sep 2008 | Member Level: Silver | Rating:  Points: 2 |
I have not done this before.
The following link may help you get started.
http://www.dnzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=698
They have given step by step instructions for creating assemlies.
Good luck.
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| Author: D.Jeya kumar(JK) 04 Sep 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: 3 |
Hi,
An Dll or exe itself an assembly. It is a deployment unit. and what you want to do the Dll?. Assembly can contain the versionning, Mainfest , meta data, etc., will be inside an assembly.
Do you want to make any assembly as Shared or public?
then you need to create a Strong name key and then you can add it in GAC and then you can use it from any application .
check the below site to create a shared or public assembly.
http://quickstart.developerfusion.co.uk/QuickStart/howto/doc/sharedname.aspx
http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/Wiki/.NET/173.htm
Regards
JK
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| Author: Anjan 05 Sep 2008 | Member Level: Silver | Rating: Points: 15 |
Hi,
Basically assembly are in two formats i.e.., dll or exe.
Assemblies are two types, private and shared assemblies.
So, you have created a dll file by default this is private assembly. If you want to make it as a shared that means that your assembly can used by other applications. In order to do that one you need to generate strong name, to generate a strong name use sn.exe.
To create shared assembly follow the steps below
1.In Microsoft VS Command prompt
sn -k key1.snk
2. After that go to AssemblyKeyInfo.cs or AssemblyKeyInfo.vb file and
add [AssemblyKeyFile("c:\key1.snk")] (in C#)
or <AssemblyKeyFile("C:\key1.snk")> (in VB.NET)
or you can go to project properties and do the same.
3. Then build your application.
4. In Microsft VS command prompt, enter gacutil -a <assemblyname>
it will directly copy to assembly folder(C:\windows\assembly)
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| Author: Appukuttan 05 Sep 2008 | Member Level: Diamond | Rating: Points: -20 |
Assembly creation
The code shown in Listing 1 is to create an assembly programmatically. The code written is written in the C# language. The purpose of the code is to create an assembly with a class added to it. We also add a method to the class and finally save the dynamic assembly to the local system.
Listing 1
AppDomain currentDomain = Thread.GetDomain();
AssemblyName myAssemblyName = new AssemblyName();
myAssemblyName.Name = "Test";
myAssemblyName.Version = new Version(1, 0, 0, 0);
AssemblyBuilder builder = currentDomain.DefineDynamicAssembly(myAssemblyName,
AssemblyBuilderAccess.RunAndSave);
ModuleBuilder ObjModuleBuilder = builder.DefineDynamicModule("MyModule");
ObjModuleBuilder.DefineType("ClassName",
TypeAttributes.Class).DefineMethod("MethodName",
MethodAttributes.Public, CallingConventions.Standard);
builder.Save("MyAssembly.dll");
The AssemblyBuilder class is completely responsible for the creation of an assembly. An instance of the AssemblyBuilder class can be created by the current AppDomain. The steps for creating the assembly are listed below.
Step 1: Get the current application domain from the current thread.
Step 2: Create an object of the type AssemblyBuilder from the current application domain.
Step 3: Create the module builder object from the AssemblyBuilder.
Step 4: Create the different types, methods, etc. and add them to the Module Builder.
Step 5: Save the builder to the local system.
Refer:
http://aspalliance.com/1238_Creating_an_Assembly_Programmatically.2
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