Assemblies : The Ins and Out : Part III Tags: .NET, .NET
Assemblies, Assemblies, Assemblies cache Viewer, Assembly Cache,
Assembly linker utility, C#, C# Assemblies, C# Assembly,
Contents of an Assembly, IL In this part I will discuss in more
detail than Part 2, the available utilities for manipulating
assemblies. This article is the third part of a three part
series of articles covering the .Net assemblies. In Part 1, I
covered what exactly an assembly is, and what an assembly
contains. Part 2 of the series I discussed both Private and
Shared assemblies and how to create a "Shared Assembly". In part
2 I briefly mentioned some of the utilities available for
working with assemblies. In this part I will discuss in more
detail than Part 2, the available utilities for manipulating
assemblies.Assembly Linker Utility The Assembly Linker is a
command line utility named AL.exe. Ran in the form of AL sources
options. It can be used for installing shared assemblies into
the Global Assembly Cache. It can also be used to