Chapter 11. Assemblies
An assembly is the fundamental unit in which managed code is compiled, distributed, and reused. Assemblies serve as the building blocks with which you build and deploy applications. As a .NET developer, you will be constantly producing your own assemblies and consuming assemblies that have been produced by others.
Chapter 1 introduced the basic concepts associated with assemblies. This chapter examines how assemblies are built and deployed in much greater depth. We begin by looking at problems that developers and administrators experienced in the past while trying to deploy and maintain applications and DLLs in a production environment. This background information will give you valuable insight into important design decisions ...
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