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What is Assembly and what is the different type of assemblies .Net?


“An assembly may be Public or Private. A public assembly is also called a Shared Assembly.” 
  • The .NET assembly is the standard for components developed with the Microsoft.NET. 
  • Dot NET assemblies may or may not be executable, i.e., they might exist as the executable (.exe) file or dynamic link library (DLL) file.
  • All the .NET assemblies contain the definition of types, versioning information for the type, meta-data, and manifest. The designers of .NET have worked a lot on the component (assembly) resolution.
Advantages of Assemblies
  1. In the case of DLLs if a DLL has to be shared with some other application, it has to be registered in that particular machine. But, In the case of Asp.net assemblies there is no such type of registration required. Here we just need to do is to copy the assembly and put in the bin directory of the application that is going to use it.
  2. If we need to share a particular assembly with any other applications. we can do so by placing the assembly in the Global Assembly Cache (GAC). But before we going to do it we need to give a strong name to that assembly.Strong name is similar to GUID(It is supposed to be unique in space and time) in COM, components.Strong Name is only needed when we need to deploy assembly in Global Assembly Cache (GAC).Strong Names helps GAC to differentiate between two versions.Strong names use public key cryptography (PKC) to ensure that no one can spoof it.PKC use public key and private key concept.
  3. Another advantage of using ASP.Net assemblies is the ability to read the contents of an assembly. Each assembly has a manifest that has details about the assembly itself.
  4. The System.Reflection namespace has classes like Assembly which can be used to get the details of the assembly and with that it is also possible to load an assembly dynamically at runtime.

There are three types of assemblies in .NET
  • Private Assemblies
  • Public/Shared Assemblies.
  • Satellite Assembly
Private Assemblies

 Is the assembly which is used by application only, normally it resides in your application folder directory.

There is no version constraint in private assembly.

If an assembly is copied in to the respective application in which we would like to use is known as local assembly. if any changes made to the copy that will not reflect the copies in other applications.

  Public Assemblies
  • It resides in GAC, so that anyone can use this assembly. Public assemblies are always share the common.
  • It has version constraint.
  • This public assembly is stored inside the global assembly cache or GAC.GAC contains a collection of shared assemblies.
  • If an assembly is copied into the global place and reference is used from all other applications then this is called public or global assembly..if we want to copy assembly in global place we have to create strong name by using sn.exe.
Satellite Assembly
Satellite assemblies are used to build multi-linguistic applications. Application which has built in supportive of more than one human readable language is known as multi-linguistic applications.
  • Satellite Assemblies doesn’t contain any Data
  • Satellite assembly is containing cultural information.
  • Satellite assembly mainly used for to display information based on the Cultural setting of browser or region.

Suppose you developed your application in an English (en-US) locale. Now, your application has multilingual support. When you deploy your code in different location, for example in India, you want to show text, label messages in the national language (local language) which is other than English.

Satellite assemblies give this flexibility. You create any simple text file with translated strings, create resources, and put them into the bin\debug folder. That's it. The next time, your code will read the CurrentCulture property of the current thread and accordingly load the appropriate resource.
Please refer below URL for Satellite Assembly

http://helpingdotnet.blogspot.in/2012/01/what-is-satellite-assembly.html

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