Re: Difference between Assembly and Module?
From: clintonG (csgallagher_at_REMOVETHISTEXT@metromilwaukee.com)
Date: 07/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:33:43 -0500
That was a clear and articulate answer. Thank you for graduating
reading comprhension class. :-)
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"Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkiller_bobpowell.net> wrote in message
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> A module is the code generated from a single file. A single file can contain
> one or more classes so a module may have one or more classes.
>
> Classes, or modules, are distributed in Assemblies along with other embedded
> informatiuon such as resources in the form of strings and images. The types
> or modules themselves hold no version information. That's all maintained in
> the assembly.
>
> The default method for creating an executable file, either EXE or DLL from
> Visual Studio is to compile all the files and make an assembly containing
> the modules defined in the project. You can however create assemblies
> manually using the Assembly Linker program AL.EXE. This enables you to
> create single assemblies from several other assemblies. AL can do this
> because it can extract the modules from one or more assemblies and create a
> new assembly containing them.
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> "Sky Sigal" <aspforums@xact-solutions.removethis.com> wrote in message
> news:OGsoq89cEHA.3928@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Uh...a bit ashamed to admit this now that I have been programming in C#
> for
> > a while...but I still don't clearly understand from the documentation what
> > the difference between an Assembly and a Module, and when I would use
> > anything else than Assembly for reflection purposes...
> >
> > Assembly is the actual dll, or exe file, right?
> >
> > Module is...? A subset of an assembly? a superset? Nothing to do with it
> at
> > all?
> >
> > And btw: if an application has one exe, and 2 dll -- what is the term for
> > this totality if any -- or just 'application'?
> >
> >
> > Sorry for being obtuse on this one ...
> > Sky
> >
> >
> >
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