Difference between Assembly and Namespace

[nkaushik]

Hi,
Could anyone tell me difference between Assembly and Namespace in .NET

[Mr. Tomaszek]

Assembly is a piece of code (IL) that can be executed by .NET Framework.
Namespaces are designed to solve naming problems. You can have, for example, two different classes with the same name. Placeing them in different namespaces can solve the problem.

[Pawan.Singh]

hi Mr. Kaushik

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

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

Hope this helps!!!!!

Cheers.......

[jhammer]

I want to try too

Assembly: A managed dll or exe (built by .NET)
Namespace: A group of managed types (classes, enums, structs, etc).

One assembly can contain several namespaces.
One namespace can contain types from different assemblies.

The name of the namespace is not necessarily the name of the assembly.

[Shuja Ali]

I will also try

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