Assemblies & Manifests: Tutorials and/or starting points?

[Duane Roelands]

I'm about to undertake a large-scale project: completely re-writing my
company's flagship product (point-of-sale and office management) in
VB.NET. The old version is in VB6, and this will not be a port, but a
complete re-design from the ground up, including the database schema,
reports, everything.

I'm unsure how to best leverage assemblies and manifests in the design
of such a large application, and I feel that if I had a better
understanding of how they work that I would be in a much better
position to deliver a good product. For example, the idea of deliver
several smaller .EXEs (as opposed to one massive executable) intrigues
me, but I'm not sure if that's "the .NET way".

Does anyone have any suggestions on where I can find solid foundation
explanations of assemblies and manifests? Several of my .NET books
explain them, but not in great detail and not very clearly.

Thank you in advance!

Regards,
Duane Roelands

 

[Tian Min Huang]

Hello Duane,

Thanks for your post. I believe that the following MSDN article is helpful
for detailed information on Assembly and Assembly Manifest, especailly the
diagram in "Assembly Manifest".

Assembly Manifest
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/htm
l/cpconassemblymanifest.asp

Assemblies Overview
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/htm
l/cpconassembliesoverview.asp?frame=true

Please feel free to let me know if you have any problems, or if anything is
not clear.

Have a nice day!

Regards,

HuangTM
Microsoft Online Partner Support
MCSE/MCSD

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