Avoiding DLL Hell: Introducing Application Metadata in the Microsoft .NET Framework

About Avoiding DLL Hell: Introducing Application Metadata in the Microsoft .NET Framework

Avoiding DLL Hell: Introducing Application Metadata in the Microsoft .NET Framework- Describes the use of metadata for easy linking and loading of assemblies, the relationship between metadata and concepts such as IDL and type libraries, and the metadata hierarchy. By Matt Pietrek, MSDN Magazine.

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