What is Assembly Manifest

Question

What do you mean by the Assembly Manifest?

Answer 1

Assemblies maintain all their information in the special unit known as manifest. All assembly has manifest.

Followings are the matters of an Assembly Manifest:

a) Assembly name – It represents a text string which state the assembly's name.
b) Version number - It represents major and minor version number, also a revision and build number. CLR uses these numbers to enforce the version policy.
c) Culture - It represents information of the culture or the language, that assembly supports. Assembly is a container of only resources which is containing the culture- or language-specific information.
d) Strong name information - It provides the public key from the publisher, in case a strong name is allocated to the assembly.
e) List of all files in the assembly - It represents a hash of each file contained within the assembly and a file name.
f) Type reference information - It represents the information used at the runtime to map a type reference to the file which contains its implementation and declaration.
g) Information on referenced assemblies - It represents a list of other assemblies which are statically referenced by the assembly. Each reference involves the names of dependent assemblies, assembly metadata (culture, version, operating system, and so on), and public key, in case assembly is strong named.