Assemblies Defined
In order to deploy a CLR module, developers must first affiliate it with an assembly. An assembly is a logical collection of one or more modules. As just described, modules are physical constructs that exist as byte streams, typically in the file system. Assemblies are logical constructs and are referenced by location-independent names that must be translated to physical paths either in the file system or on the Internet. Those physical paths ultimately point to one or more modules that contain the type definitions, code, and resources that make up the assembly.
The CLR allows developers to compose assemblies from more than one module primarily to support deferred loading of infrequently accessed code without forming separate ...
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