C# | Assembly, EXE and DLL

Clarify the differences of these confusing tech terms

Colton
The Crazy Coder
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4 min readSep 11, 2021

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In this article, we will try to understand what exactly is termed as an Assembly, a EXE or a DLL. If you go to the microsoft.com, and try to read the definition of an assembly it says:

Assemblies form the fundamental units of deployment, version control, reuse, activation scoping, and security…

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Colton
The Crazy Coder

A software engineer who is always at a high level of passion with new techs and a strong willing to share with what I have learned.