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assembly and portable executable

Author
28 Apr 2006 5:52 PM
pooja
what is an assembly and how does it related with portable executable in
..net architecture?

Author
28 Apr 2006 7:02 PM
Mattias Sjögren
>what is an assembly

See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconassemblies.asp


>how does it related with portable executable in
>.net architecture?

An assembly is made up of one or more modules (usually with the file
extension .dll, .exe or .netmodule), and the modules use the PE file
format.


Mattias

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Author
30 Apr 2006 7:05 AM
pooja
what will happen when we create a windows project(myproj) in vb.net
having one form . now when i compile this project then what will
happen? will an assembly by name mypro is created or not? and will PE
be created if yes then what does it contain?

I have read that when .net project is complied , it is converted into
IL . PE will contain this IL and metadata. now I want to ask that if PE
contains IL and metadata then what does an assembly contain?





Mattias Sjögren wrote:

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> >what is an assembly
>
> See
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconassemblies.asp
>
>
> >how does it related with portable executable in
> >.net architecture?
>
> An assembly is made up of one or more modules (usually with the file
> extension .dll, .exe or .netmodule), and the modules use the PE file
> format.
>
>
> Mattias
>
> --
> Mattias Sjögren [C# MVP]  mattias @ mvps.org
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> Please reply only to the newsgroup.