Modules and Assemblies

Assemblies serve many roles, including the following:

Image They serve as a typical unit for the deployment of code, associated metadata, and embedded resources.

Image They act as a means to stimulate code reuse by building libraries that can be reused from different components or applications.

Image They provide for a versioning story, resolving core issues that existed before in the world of COM with the “DLL hell.”

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