Summary
In this chapter, I discussed the major advantages of using assemblies, including packaging, deployment, versioning, and security. I also discussed single-file and multifile assemblies and the Assembly Generation tool (al.exe), how to create and share assemblies by using the Strong Name tool (sn.exe), and the Global Assembly Cache tool (gacutil.exe). I also demonstrated how to control the default versioning policies used by .NET with the creation of XML-based configurations files.