Visual Basic® 2010 Unleashed

Assembly Information and Attributes

As you saw in different parts of the book, assemblies contain information that can make them recognizable from the external world, such as name, version, author, and copyright information. All these items are part of the assembly metadata and are injected to the assembly by adding some attributes declaration to the AssemblyInfo.vb file through instances of the Assembly attribute. Such attributes are covered in Chapter 3, “The Anatomy of a Visual Basic Project,” particularly in Listing 3.3, which shows how to map properties assigned via the My Project Designer, so have a look. Now that you know more about assemblies’ contents and purposes, let’s see where the CLR executes these complex units of work.