Assemblies
Mono offers an important concept known as an assembly. Assemblies solve many problems Unix and Windows users have to face quite often. Many problems on Unix and Windows are similar, so Mono and the .NET Framework try to solve this problem once and forever.
Many of you know of problems that occur because of inconsistent classes. When somebody writes an application, it might happen that a module will be overwritten. This leads to ugly problems that cannot be fixed easily. Application developers have to face the fact that such problems cannot be fixed because they have no idea which module was substituted for a wrong piece of software. When installing software, a module need not be registered in the system.
The .NET Framework makes sure ...
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