assembly is collection of compiled or executable components which versioned and deployed as single implimentation unit. assemblies are two types

1. private assembly- can be accessed only by single application

2. shared assembly-can be accessed by multiple applications in a system.

Private Public/Shared Satellite.

A private assembly is normally used by a single application and is stored in the application's directory. A shared assembly is normally stored in the global assembly cache which is a repository of assemblies maintained by the .NET runtime. Satellite assemblies are often used to deploy language-specific resources for an application. These language-specific assemblies work in side-by-side execution because the application has a separate product ID for each language and installs satellite assemblies in a language-specific subdirectory for each language.

Assembly types

1)public

2)private

3)shared

4)Satelite assemblies

Assemblies that are created when u build the application. It will be stored in applications directory.

Shared Assembly: This is about installing the assembly in GAC. Multiple applications can share this.

Lets see the steps to create this

Use sn -k for strong naming

Then use GACUTIL -i to install the assembly into GAC.

Four Type of Assemblies

Private

Public

Satellite

Multicast Assembly

How many types of assemblies are there:

There are six type of assemblies:

1) Private assemblies

2) Shared/Public assemblies

3) Sattelite assemblies

4) Dynamic assemblies

5) Single File assemblies

6) Multy File assemblies

.Net Assembly can be classified in four Categories:

(A) With Respect to Program Access.
i) Private Assembly- It can be used only in one application.
ii) Public/Shared Assembly- It can be used by all applications in the server.

(B) With Respect to Number of Resources.
i) Static Assembly- It uses fixed resources.
ii) Dynamic Assembly- It supports dynamic creation of resouces or files at
runtime programatically.

(C) With Respect to Deployment.
i) Satellite Assembly- Easily Deployable. (Visual Studio 2005).
ii) Resource-Only Assembly- In Visual Studio 2003.

(D) With Respect to Number of Assemblies.
i) Single File Assembly- /Bin/x.dll

ii) Multi File Assembly- /Bin/x.dll
y.dll
z.dll
---
---
---