•An
assembly user generally binds to a specific version
of an assembly it uses
•Runtime
performs checks to identify assembly:
–checks
original assembly for version to bind to
–checks
configuration files to determine version
–looks
in Global Assembly Cache
or local dir for that
version
•This
deals with only Assembly Version Number
•Informational
Version
–another
number for information may be provided
–not
used by the run time, though