What is meant by Assemblies ????

An assembly is a single deployable unit that contains all the information about the implementation of :
- classes
- structures and
- interfaces
An assembly stores all the information about itself. This information is called METADATA and include the name and the version number of the assembly, security information, information about the dependencies and a lost of files that constitute the assembly.
All the application developed using the .NET framework are made up of assemblies.
Namespaces are also stored in assemblies