Programming in the .NET Environment

Chapter 5. Building Applications

So far, most of the examples in this book have focused on simple, single-file .NET applications. In the real world, of course, applications tend to be much larger, consisting of many discrete files. These files will include both program files that contain code (both managed and unmanaged), and non–code-related files, such as data, message, or icon files. To complicate matters even further, many modern applications draw resources from many disparate locations—portions of the application may come from one server, while other portions come from another server. From the user's point of view, these discrete portions all combine at runtime to form the final application.

These concepts should be familiar to anyone experienced ...