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What is Assembly name and name space? Whats the diffrence between the two?

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Last Update: March 16, 2007 Asked by: Lakshmanan

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Submitted by: KulaShaker

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.

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August 27, 2006 15:04:15

KulaShaker

RE: What is Assembly name and name space? Whats the di...

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.

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November 14, 2006 15:28:14

Srinivaasu

RE: What is Assembly name and name space? Whats the di...

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).

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March 16, 2007 05:40:07

nagendrasrivastava

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

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