Full Name:
Assemblies and the Global Assembly Cache (C#)

Short Name:
Assemblies and the Global Assembly Cache (C#)

Type of Entity:
C#

Abstract:
An assembly is a fundamental building block of any .NET Framework application. For example, when you build a simple C# application, Visual Studio creates an assembly in the form of a single portable executable (PE) file, specifically an EXE or DLL.

MSDN Source URL:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/ms173099.aspx