Assembly files

Hi.

I am confused with the concept of assemblies.

A single WinForm application has an assembly file too? Where is it located and what is its purpose?

Many thanks

Robert Scheer

An assembly is just a generic term for the compiled file..an assembly can be a dll, exe, whatever.

As far as i can tell an assembly is similar to a java manifest. Assemblies get pretty in-depth but the the puprose of them
is the following. Deployment, Version Control, Security, Type Grouping, Code Reuse.

As far as I can tell assemblies along with namespaces are Microsofts next phase for COM development.