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Identifying an Assembly with Metadata
Metadata identifies each assembly with the following: name, culture, version, and
public key.The name used is the textual name of the assembly or the name you
gave it when you created it.The culture simply references the cultural settings
used such as language, time zone, country/region, and other localization items.
The public key used is the same one generated by the assembly.
Types
In unmanaged code (i.e.,VB 6.0), we referred to types as objects.Types, like
objects, contain data and logic that are exposed as methods, properties, and fields.
The big differences between the ...