Chapter 14-Lesson 1

• An Assembly consists of the following parts: Assembly metadata, Type metadata, IL Code, Resources.
• Assembly metadata is also called the manifest and contains information such as Strong Name, Version, Culture, etc.
• Type metadata contains information about all the classes, structs, interfaces and their members.
• Resources contain objects like images, strings, etc.
• An Assembly may consist of multiple files.
• The Assembly class is used to represent a .NET assembly in the code.
• The Load( ) static method if this class loads the specified Assembly in the current AppDomain.
• Each assembly contains one or more modules that represent containers for type information.