Developing XML Web Services and Server Components with Visual C# .NET and the .NET Framework, Exam Cram 2 (Exam 70-320)

Chapter 11. Deployment

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Assembly

• Binding policy

• Delay signing

• Global Assembly Cache (GAC)

• Merge module

• Native compilation

• Publisher policy

• Strong name

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Creating setup programs for installing a Windows service, a serviced component, a .NET Remoting object, and an XML Web service

• Registering components and assemblies

• Understanding and implementing binding policy

• Planning and configuring applications for side-by-side deployments

Assemblies are the smallest units of versioning and deployment in the .NET applications. When a .NET application requests assemblies, the common language runtime (CLR) follows a set of rules called binding policy to locate the assemblies. Binding policy is a deciding factor ...