Friday 6 July 2012

What is an Asssembly Qualified Name? Is it a filename? How is it different?

Purpose:
  • Any developer that has developed complex systems will have come to know version hell. This question aims at testing how intimate a knowledge a developer has on the naming and meta data that helps to keep versioning of assemblies in check.
  • A comprehensive answer in this domain shows past experience in developing and deploying multi environment code.

Potential Answer:
Assembly qualified name contains contains the full assembly name, the associated version, public key and other meta information. It is therefore not a filename as that is simple file name physically on file system. An qualified name or assembly names store much more Meta data as is very important by means of defining scope and using it in application and of course helping with the handling of versions..

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