KulaShaker

• Aug 27th, 2006

 

An assembly is a logical unit of code. Physically it may exist as dll or an exe. which can contain one or more files and they can be any file types like image files, text files etc. along with DLLs or EXEs.When you compile your source code by default the exe/dll which is generated is actually an assemblyand every assembly file contains information about itself which is called as Assembly Manifest.Namespace is an abstract container providing context for the items it holds and allows disambiguation of items having the same name (residing in different namespaces. It can also be said as a context for identifiers. So under a namespace you can have multiple assemblies.

Srinivaasu

• Nov 14th, 2006

 

Thanks KulaShaker, Assemblies are Physical collections, where as namespaces are logical collections.Namespaces used for the rectifying the naming collisions of the classes (Say reduces the typing work of developers).

nagendrasrivastava

• Mar 16th, 2007

 

Assembly is the basic building block of .NET framework while namespace is a class.