Pro .NET Framework with the Base Class Library: Understanding the Virtual Execution System and the Common Type System

© Roger Villela  2019

Roger VillelaPro .NET Framework with the Base Class Libraryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4191-2_5

5. Assembly Manifest and Versioning

Roger Villela¹ 

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São Paulo, Brazil

 

This chapter will cover the metadata system and its importance to the CTS and the VES. For this, we use one of the critical structural and behavioral elements of the platform: the assembly manifest. We will also begin learning about the versioning system and how the VES works with it.

Metadata

The basic definition of metadata is “data that describes data.” However, this is too abstract of a concept on the first read. We can experiment with the benefits of metadata using the System.Reflection types and the System.Type reference type, for example. As the names ...