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Visual Basic .NET/NET assembly
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Assemblies and Manifests
A Microsoft.NET Assembly is an exe or dll. Assemblies are the basic unit of deployment. An assembly consists of 4 components:
Assembly Metadata (also known as Assembly Manifest)
This is sort of like a packaging list of everything that is required for this assembly to work. A manifest contains:
Version requirements
Security Identity
Scope of assembly
Type Metadata
IL (Intermediate Language)
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