Creating a Private Assembly

In Visual Studio .NET there is always an assembly whether you choose a class library
project or an exe project. Now, let's start some practical work.

• Start Visual Studio 2005


• Choose a new C# project [File -> New Project]



• From template pane choose Class Library Template


• Set the Location : F:\myWrittings\CSharpBook\Source Codes\


• Name : privateAssembly

Check full code of private
assembly.

• In Solution explorer change class name from Class1 to mathclass


• Now right click on mathclass and click on view code


• Change the name of namespace from privateAssembly to CSharp.AStepAhead.privateAssemby


• After writing codes of the assembly, now you have to provide some information to
  your assembly as follows:

using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices; // General Information about an assembly is
controlled through the following
// set of attributes. Change these attribute values to modify the information
// associated with an assembly.
[assembly: AssemblyTitle("privateAssembly")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("This is an Example of Book: C#-A Step Ahead
Series")]
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("Free I.T. Education Series - A Step Ahead")]
[assembly: AssemblyCompany("")]
[assembly: AssemblyProduct("A Step Ahead Series")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright © A Step Ahead 2007")]
[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]
// Setting ComVisible to false makes the types in this assembly not visible
// to COM components. If you need to access a type in this assembly from
// COM, set the ComVisible attribute to true on that type.
[assembly: ComVisible(false)]
// The following GUID is for the ID of the typelib if this project is exposed to COM
[assembly: Guid("d5389a36-3aa1-4e22-b3df-4cacd5e96531")]

For above, you have to click on AssemblyInfo.cs under properties from Solution Explorer

The above information tells about the assembly name, title its short description
and company who had developed it.

For more detail check table assembly attributes.

Write codes to provide the working for client application.

Now build solution from Build -> Build Solution or Ctrl + Shift + B

If build succeeded, it means you have created an assembly

You can check the assembly using ILDASM