.NET Assemblies
In classic Win32 development environments, such as Visual Basic 6 or Visual C++, your source code is parsed by compilers that produce binary executable files that can be immediately interpreted and run by the operating system. This affects both standalone applications and dynamic/type libraries. Actually Win32 applications, built with Visual Basic 6 and C++, used a runtime, but if you had applications developed with different programming languages, you also had to install the appropriate runtimes. In .NET development things are quite different. Whatever .NET language you create applications with, compilers generate an assembly, which is a file containing .NET executable code and is composed essentially by two kinds of elements: ...
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