What are the Types of Assemblies?

Assemblies are of two types
1. Private Assemblies
2. Shared Assemblies
Private Assemblies: The assembly is intended only for one application. The files of that assembly must be placed in the same folder as the application or in a sub folder. No other application will be able to make a call to this assembly. The advantage of having a private assembly is that, it makes naming the assembly very easy, since the developer need not worry about name clashes with other assemblies. As long as the assembly has a unique name within the concerned application, there won't be any problems.
Shared Assemblies: If the assembly is to be made into a Shared Assembly, then the naming conventions are very strict since it has to be unique across the entire system. The naming conventions should also take care of newer versions of the component being shipped. These are accomplished by giving the assembly a Shared Name. Then the assembly is placed in the global assembly cache, which is a folder in the file system reserved for shared assemblies.
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Vikram

  • Jul 9th, 2005
 

if an assembly is shared type then we have to create a strong name using "sn -k [assembly name].snk" 
then we have to load it into GAC(Global Assembly Cache) using gacUtil.exe. gacUtil.exe - i [strongnamefile.snk]

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sanker

  • Nov 11th, 2005
 

Private, Public/Shared, Satellite

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balajifortest

  • Sep 28th, 2006
 

Hai,

  I think assembles classified into four types they were

1)Private Assembly

2)Shared Assembly

3)Resource-only Assembly

4)Satellite Assembly.

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