.NET Assembly

Posted Date: 19 Aug 2008	Resource Type: Articles	Category: .NET Framework
Author: D.Jeya kumar(JK)	Member Level: Diamond
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Assembly in .net
An assembly is basic build block of .net. A dot net assembly may be a EXE (executable) or a dll (Dynamic Linking library).A .net assembly contains the information about the Definition, Versioning information (To avoid the Dll hell problem).Mani fest and the meta data.
Kinds of assembly
Private and
Shared
Private Assembly:
A Private assembly is used within an application. Usually it will be application folder. It is used only by application.

Shared Assemblies:
A shared or public assembly can be shared across application and it will be in common place where the application will refer it. The common area is known as Global assembly Cache (GAC). It will be in Operating system installed Drive\Windows\assembly. In order to create a shared or public assembly it should have strong name. A strong includes Name, Version, Public key token and culture info, The Version and public key token makes assembly as unique and no 2 shared assemblies will have version conflicts. 2 assemble with different version is possible because of the song name. so a string name is must in order to be in global cache.

Satellite Assembly
Another Assembly is satellite assembly which is different from other 2 assembles. It is used for the Multi lingual application. Each language text will be store in a unique resource file and it can be referred by using culture information.

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