Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring with deeper research into the topics in this chapter.

Exercise 6.1 – Test your knowledge

Use the web to answer the following questions:

1. What are the four parts of a .NET assembly and which are optional?
2. What can an attribute be applied to?
3. What are the names of the parts of a version number and what do they mean if they follow the rules of semantic versioning?
4. How do you get a reference to the assembly for the currently executing console app?
5. How do you get all the attributes applied to an assembly?
6. How should you create a custom attribute?
7. What class do you inherit from to enable dynamic loading of assemblies?
8. What is an expression tree?
9. What is a source generator?
10. Which interface must a source generator class implement and what methods are part of that interface?
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