.Net Assembly

.Net Assembly interview questions and answer

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Define .Net Assembly. It is a primary unit of deployment in a Microsoft .NET Framework application. It is called as building block of an application which provides all required execution information to common language runtime....................... Read answer What does an assembly contain? An assembly contains following information: Assembly manifest: Information about the assembly...................  Read answer Define a private assembly and a shared assembly. A private assembly is stored in the application’s directory and used by a single application. A share assembly can be used by multiple applications.................. Read answer What are Satellite Assemblies? Satellite assemblies provide an application the multilingual support. Satellite assemblies contain................ Read answer What do you understand by side-by-site execution of assembly? This means multiple version of same assembly to run on the same computer. This feature enables to deploy multiple versions of the component................. Read answer How do you create a resource-only assembly? Resources are nonexecutable data in an application and the data can be updated without recompiling application. Resource assemblies can be created as follows:.................. Read answer Explain how to retrieve resources using ResourceManager class. ResourceManager class is used to retrieve resources at run time. Create a ResourceManager with resource file name and the resource assembly as parameters..................   Read answer Define Strong Name. How do you apply a strong name to assembly? A strong name means generating public key in order to provide unique name to the assembly................... Read answer How do you install assembly to the Global Assembly Cache? Followings are the steps to install assembly to the GAC. Sign assembly with a strong name using strong name utility, sn.exe................. Read answer What is AL.EXE and RESGEN.EXE? Resgen.exe performs conversion of .txt / .restext files to .resources / .resx files and vice-versa..................... Read answer <<Previous  Next>> Also read Explain the concepts and capabilities of Assembly in .NET An assembly is a collection of files (dll’s, exe’s), group of resources that help in creating a logical unit of functionality...........    What is Manifest in .NET? Manifest in .NET helps to understand the relation between the elements of the assemblies........... What is GAC in .NET? When an application is shared amongst several other applications, the complete machine code is present the Global assembly cache............ .Net Framework  This includes introduction of .Net framework, .Net framework architecture, role of assembly and GAC.