Delphi for .NET Developer’s Guide

Chapter 6. Assemblies—Libraries and Packages

by Steve Teixeira

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Core Assemblies

• Viewing Assembly Contents and Dependencies

• Ring the GAC

• Building Assemblies

• Using Assemblies in Delphi

• Using Delphi Assemblies in C#

• Installing Packages into the Delphi IDE

• Strong Naming Assemblies

• Dynamically Loading Assemblies

Assemblies were introduced in Chapter 2, “Overview of the .NET Framework,” as discrete deployment modules for .NET applications and libraries. Physically, assemblies are PE-format files containing .NET IL code intended for execution. Logically, assemblies form boundaries for scope, type, version, and security in the .NET Framework.

Assemblies can be executable modules (.exe files) or shared libraries (.dll files). Any program, library, ...