Challenge

Use a .NET assembly. The following code shows a test application that exercises the CakeInfo assembly that was created in the separate item, "How to Create & Version a .NET Assembly." It is similar to the caketester application created in the item, "How to Use and Locate a UNIX (including Linux) Shared Library."

            using System
            using CakeUtils
            namespace SizeCake
               public class SizeTest
              
                  public static void Main(string [] args)
                  
                     short numEaters
                     numEaters = CakeInfo.FeedsHowMany(10, CakeShape.Hexagonal
                     CakeFilling.Sponge)
                     Console.WriteLine("This cake will feed " + numEaters +
                     " people."
                  
               

Solution

Compile the application using the following command:

			csc /r:CakeInfo.dll SizeCake.cs

The parameter to the command specifies that the program references the assembly. When the program runs, the output should be:

 

			This cake will feed 8 people.

 

This item is part of a larger body of items that contrast the ways in which versioning and dynamic linking are handled by Windows* and the .NET Common Language Runtime* (CLR), as opposed to by UNIX-based operating systems such as Linux* or Solaris.*

Source

Versioning, Libraries, and Assemblies