CHAPTER 3 Shared Assemblies and Strongly Named Assemblies

Question 1

Two Kinds of Assemblies, Two Kinds of Deployment

Answer 1

Whether signed with a publisher’s public/private key pair

Can Be Privately Deployed
Can Be Globally Deployed

Question 2

Giving an Assembly a Strong Name

Answer 2

A strongly named assembly consists of four attributes that uniquely identify the assembly: a file name (without an extension), a version number, a culture identity, and a public key

The publisher’s public key is also embedded into the AssemblyDef manifest metadata table in this
PE file.