What exactly is an Assembly in C# or .NET?

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Could you please explain what is an Assembly in C# or .NET?

  1. Where does it begin and where does it end?
  2. What important information should I know about Assemblies?
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The answer is in order for immediate-grasping.

Put simply, it is the compiled project involving your classes and additional files, if there are. That is, each project in a solution is assembly.

Or more techinally,

An assembly is where a type is stored in the flesystem. Assemblies are a mechanism for deploying code. For example, the System.Data.dll assembly contains types for managing data. To use types in other assemblies, they must be referenced. - Source

How do we know it? If you glance at properties of a project under the solution you can see the following images.

When you compile the project, it turns out to DLL or EXE.

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After writing source code of your program(project) then a file is created which may be DLL or EXE depends on your project. It makes only once for a single project. It has two types 1:- single 2:- shared or multiprogram single assembly used only in a single program while shared can be used for multiprogram

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An Assembly is a collection of logical units. Logical units refer to the types and resources which are required to build an application and deploy them using the .Net framework. Basically, Assembly is a collection of Exe and DLLs. It is portable and executable.

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