Pro C# 10 with .NET 6: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming

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A. Troelsen, P. JapiksePro C# 10 with .NET 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7869-7_16

16. Building and Configuring Class Libraries

Andrew Troelsen¹   and Phil Japikse²

(1)

Chambersburg, PA, USA

(2)

West Chester, OH, USA

 

For most of the examples so far in this book, you have created “stand-alone” executable applications, in which all the programming logic was packaged within a single assembly (*.dll) and executed using dotnet.exe (or a copy of dotnet.exe named after the assembly). These assemblies were using little more than the .NET base class libraries. While some simple .NET programs may be constructed using nothing more than the base class libraries, chances ...