Chapter 8 - Assemblies | |
bySimon Robinsonet al. | |
Wrox Press 2002 | |
In this chapter we'll be discussing assemblies . An assembly is the .NET term for a deployment and configuration unit. We'll discuss exactly what they are, how they can be used, and why they're such a useful feature. In particular, we'll cover:
The innovations offered by assemblies over previous technologies
How to create and view assemblies
What the Common Language Specification means, and how cross-language support is made possible
How to create resource-only assemblies and use them for localization
How to share assemblies - for this we have to create unique names and look at versioning
Let's begin this chapter with an overview of assemblies: