What’s In The Metadata

• Description of deployment unit (assembly)

  • Identity: name, version, culture[, public key]
  • What types are exported
  • What other assemblies it depends on
  • Security permissions needed to run

• Description of types

  • Name, visibility, base class, interfaces implemented
  • Members (methods, fields, properties, events, nested types)

• Custom attributes

  • User-defined
  • Compiler-defined
  • Framework-defined

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