About Assembly in .NET, types of assemblies, their
difference, How to register into GAC. How to generate the
strong names & its use ?

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About Assembly in .NET, types of assemblies, their difference, How to register into GAC. How to gen..

Answer / poonam

In the Microsoft .NET framework, an assembly is is used by
the .NET CLR (Common Language Runtime)as a partially
compiled code library for use in deployment, versioning and
security. In the Microsoft Windows implementation of .NET,
an assembly is a PE (portable executable) file. There are
two types: process assemblies (EXE) and library assemblies
(DLL). A process assembly represents a process which will
use classes defined in library assemblies.
Assemblies consists of a manifest and one or more modules
and/or files like HTML, XML, images, video clips,...

An assembly must contain a single manifest and may
optionally contain type meta data, MSIL (Microsoft
Intermediate Language) and resources.

.Net Assembly can be classified in four Categories:

(A) With Respect to Program Access.
i) Private Assembly- It can be used only in one
application.This is the default style of assembly. Such
assemblies must reside in the application folder.
ii) Public/Shared Assembly- It can be used by all
applications in the server.
They must have a globally unique name and must be defined in
the GAC (Global Assembly Cache).

(B) With Respect to Number of Resources.
i) Static Assembly- It uses fixed resources.
ii) Dynamic Assembly- It supports dynamic creation
of resouces or files at
runtime programatically.

(C) With Respect to Deployment.
i) Satellite Assembly- Easily Deployable. (Visual
Studio 2005).
ii) Resource-Only Assembly- In Visual Studio 2003.

(D) With Respect to Number of Assemblies.
i) Single File Assembly- /Bin/x.dll

ii) Multi File Assembly- /Bin/x.dll
y.dll
z.dll
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About Assembly in .NET, types of assemblies, their difference, How to register into GAC. How to gen..

Answer / vikas sharma

Assembly are the basic building blocks of .net
Three type of assembly are there.
1. Private Assembly
2. Shared Assembly
3. Satelite Assembly.
GAC is used to provide the different versioning.
Strong name used to use it without any complication or
fault.

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About Assembly in .NET, types of assemblies, their difference, How to register into GAC. How to gen..

Answer / sheshasai

1. Private Assembly
2. Shared Assembly
3. Satelite Assembly.

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About Assembly in .NET, types of assemblies, their difference, How to register into GAC. How to gen..

Answer / sivasubramanian hariharan

Assembly is a basic building blocks of .net framework.
There are 3 types of assembly.
1. Private Assembly
2. Shared Assembly
3. Satelite Assembly.
GAC is used to provide the different versioning.Strong name
used to use it without any complication or fault.

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About Assembly in .NET, types of assemblies, their difference, How to register into GAC. How to gen..

Answer / kishore

.method private hidebysig static void Main(string[] args)
cil managed {
.entrypoint
.custom instance void [mscorlib]
System.STAThreadAttribute::.ctor() = ( 01 00 00 00 )
// Code size 11 (0xb)
.maxstack 1
IL_0000: ldstr "Hello World"
IL_0005: call void [mscorlib]
System.Console::WriteLine(string)
IL_000a: ret } // end of method Class1::Main

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About Assembly in .NET, types of assemblies, their difference, How to register into GAC. How to gen..

Answer / hari

Their is only two type of assemblies
That is Private and Shared Assembly.

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