April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 56m
English
book
.NET Framework Security
by Brian A. LaMacchia, Sebastian Lange, Matthew Lyons, Rudi Martin, Kevin T. Price
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Review of the Anatomy of an Assembly
Managed applications minimally consist of one assembly. The .NET Framework also ships with managed code libraries for use with managed code. These libraries are all contained in various, functionally oriented assemblies. You may now wonder what exactly goes into an assembly. Figure 11.1 gives a high-level overview of what assemblies actually contain.
Figure 11.1. The constituents of an assembly.
Let's look a little deeper into each of the constituents of an assembly. MS IL refers to the Microsoft Intermediate Language code contained in an assembly. MS IL, or IL in short, is an object-oriented assembly language ...