What is shared and private assembly?

Private AssemblyThe Assembly that is local to the particular folder is called Private Assembly
The disadvantage is that each time a copy of the Assembly is created which in turn occupies more memory and reduces the performance

Shared AssemblyWhen we maintain one copy of the Assembly for set of applications through out the system it is called Shared Assembly
More memory usage can be reduced by this concept

So here comes the concept of public key and version number to maintain unique ness of the Assembly for particular application.

What is shared and private assembly?

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