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title: "What is an assembly?"  
description: "What is an assembly?"  
author: "Pushpendra Singh"  
published: 2010-10-25  
updated: 2020-09-22  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/151/what-is-an-assembly  
category: ".net"  
tags: [".net"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is an assembly?

An assembly is a collection of one or more .exe or dll’s. An assembly is the fundamental unit for application development and deployment in the .NET Framework. An assembly contains a collection of types and resources that are built to work together and form a logical unit of functionality. An assembly provides the CLR with the information it needs to be aware of type implementations.

## Answers

### Answer by Pushpendra Singh

An assembly is a collection of one or more .exe or dll’s. An assembly is the fundamental unit for application development and deployment in the .NET Framework. An assembly contains a collection of types and resources that are built to work together and form a logical unit of functionality. An assembly provides the CLR with the information it needs to be aware of type implementations.


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