Structure, Architacture of assembly

Assembly: - Assembly is a collection of classes developed in different languages & packaged as DLL to achieve a task.

Assembly Architecture: Internal organization of a DLL file is called as “Assembly Architecture”.

"A diagram of an assembly"

DLL file is divided into 3 layers.

• Manifest information : Holds the summary of dll.
• Type information : stores the behavior of the language.
• MSIL : contains the actual logic.