Applied Microsoft® .NET Framework Programming

Building Types into a Module

In this section, I’ll show you how to turn your source file, containing various types, into a file that can be deployed. Let’s start by examining the following simple application:

public class App {
   static public void Main(System.String[] args) {
      System.Console.WriteLine("Hi");
   }
}

This application defines a type, called App. This type has a single static, public method called Main. Inside Main is a reference to another type called System.Console. System.Console is a type implemented by Microsoft, and the IL code that implements this type’s methods are in the MSCorLib.dll file. So, our application defines a type and also uses another company’s type.

To build this sample application, put the preceding code into a source ...