Assemblies
You deploy .NET types in Assemblies. A .NET assembly is the unit of deployment, reuse, versioning, and security in the .NET Framework. An assembly consists of one or more modules. Each module may contain either a managed code PE file with MSIL code and metadata, or it may contain resources like JPEG or BMP files. One of the managed code PE files must contain a manifest. The manifest is part of an assembly's metadata, it contains the following information:
Versioning information about the assembly, such as its version number, culture information, the publisher's public key, and some additional flags.
An entry for each file that constitutes the assembly that contains the file name, but not the path, of each file in the assembly, a hash ...
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