Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Summary

Understanding how assemblies work and how they can be managed is a key topic in .NET development. In this chapter, you first got an overview of assemblies, including their structure; their locations; and the type of information they share, such as code and metadata. Next, the discussion focused on application domains and the System.AppDomain class, which provides units of isolation for executing assemblies. Finally, you got an overview of the security model available in .NET Framework 4.x, starting from discussing the transparency level and the sandboxed model to analyzing specific code examples.