Summary

In this final chapter, we've seen how to control the logical and physical organization of code in a Visual C# .NET application. In summary, we have covered:

• How to use namespaces to partition the application into logical groups of related types, and how these can relate to packages in a UML object model

• How to use assemblies and modules to break your applications into workable, reusable, and uniquely named sections, that could be written in multiple .NET languages

• How to compile and deploy your application as separate assemblies, including the use of DLLs, EXEs, and modules

• How to use the Global Assembly Cache to create a shared assembly that can easily be located by the CLR, and how the GAC should remove the DLL hell that happened with the Windows Registry

• How to build documentation into a compiled assembly

• How to use XML tags to produce and maintain professional-looking documentation with relatively little effort