VJs Tip Of The Day - August 4th 2004

Assemblies Details Introduction

•Assembly has a four part name that uniquely identifies it – Name, Version, Culture & develope
•Version – Major.Minor.Build.Revision
•Culture – Satellite Assemblies contain culture info attribute that indicates the spoken language and country-code
•Public Keys – Used to uniquely identify the developer of a component and provide protection from getting tampered by external sources
using System.Reflection;
[assembly: AssemblyVersion(“1.2.3.4”)]
[assembly: AssemblyCulture(“en-US”)]
[assembly: AssemblyKeyFile(“mykey.snk”)]

PS: Naveeth Krishnan from Trivandrum .Net User Group has suggested me to start writing more about Assemblies so this is the beginning... We will deviate once in a while so that none of us get bored but still we will touch more about Assemblies now...

PPS: Did you read my suggestion to Microsoft long time back... You will like it.. Click Here