C Sharp Programming/NET assembly
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Assemblies and Manifests
[edit | edit source]A Microsoft dotNET Assembly is an exe or dll. Assemblies are the basic unit of deployment. An assembly consists of 4 components:
- Assembly Metadata (also known as Assembly Manifest)
- This is sort of like a packaging list of everything that is required for this assembly to work. A manifest contains:
- Version requirements
- Security Identity
- Scope of assembly
- This is sort of like a packaging list of everything that is required for this assembly to work. A manifest contains:
- Type Metadata
- IL (Intermediate Language)
- Resources

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