.NET Programming: A Practical Guide Using C#

Advanced Topics

This section contains some advanced topics. You can skip this section if you wish and visit it later. The topics include the following:

• Building assemblies that contain multiple modules as well as other files such as HTML files.

• Loading resources such as strings and images programmatically and localizing resources by means of satellite assemblies.

• The internals of manifest and digital signing of strong-named assemblies.

• Using Reflection to inspect metadata and to invoke methods programmatically.

Multifile Assemblies

So far, all the assemblies we have built consisted of a single module. Although this is the most common case for an assembly, it is also possible to build assemblies containing multiple modules.

From the assembly consumer's ...