An important benefit of the manifest is that it is physically
a part of the assembly and also helps to describe it. Assem-
blies do not need to be registered in order to work on a
machine (assuming all other prerequisites are met).
The metadata associated with an assembly describes the
dependencies and version information associated with the
assembly. Not only does this make it much easier to ensure
that all necessary dependencies of an assembly are met, but it
is now possible for multiple versions of the same assembly to
run side by side on the same computer without conflict. This
was a major design goal of the .NET Framework and helped
eliminate the ...
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