What is the difference between Namespace and Assembly?

[chinmay.sahoo]

The major difference between namespace and assembly are:-
Assembly is physical grouping up of logical units. Namespace is logically grouped classes
Namespace can spam multiple Assembly.

 

[Elly]

Namespace:
1) it is a Collection of names wherein each name is Unique.
2) They form the logical boundary for a Group of classes.
3) Namespace must be specified in Project-Properties.

Assembly:
1) It is an Output Unit.
2) It is a unit of Deployment & a unit of versioning.
3) Assemblies contain MSIL code.
4) Assemblies are Self-Describing. [e.g. metadata,manifest]
5)An assembly is the primary building block of a .NET Framework application.
6) It is a collection of functionality that is built, versioned, and deployed as a single implementation unit (as one or more files).
7) All managed types and resources are marked either as accessible only within their implementation unit, or by code outside that unit.

 

[bdh88]

Difference between NameSpace and Assembly. A .Net Namespace provides the fundamental unit of logical code grouping while an assembly provides a fundamental unit of physical code grouping. Namespaces is a logical group of related classes that can be used by any other language targeting the Microsoft .Net framework .

 

[sonth321]

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