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| .Net Technology – In a Nut Shell |
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| Assemblies |
- What is an Assembly?
- What are Private and Shared assemblies?
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| What is an assembly? |
- An assembly is the primary building block of a .Net Framework application. It is a collection of functionality that is built, versioned and deployed as a single implementation unit (as one or more files).
- All managed types and resources are marked either as accessible only within their implementation unit, or as accessible by code outside that unit.
- Assemblies are self-describing by means of their manifest, which is an integral part of every assembly.
- The self-describing nature of assemblies also helps make zero-impact install and XCOPY deployment feasible.
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| What are Private and Shared Assemblies? |
- A Private assembly is used only by a single application and is stored in that application’s install directory.
- A Shared assembly is one that can be referenced by more than one application. In order to share an assembly, it must be explicitly built for this purpose by giving it a cryptographically strong name.
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| MSIL |
- Microsoft Intermediate Language is the CPU-independent instruction set into which the .Net Framework programs are compiled.
- It contains instructions for loading, storing, initializing and calling methods on objects.
- Combined with metadata and the common type system, MSIL allows for true cross-language integration.
- Prior to execution, MSIL is converted to machine code. It is not interpreted.
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