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 of this chapter.

Exercise 7.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

1. What is the difference between a namespace and an assembly?
2. How do you reference another project in a .csproj file?
3. What is the benefit of a tool like ILSpy?
4. Which .NET type does the C# float alias represent?
5. When porting an application from .NET Framework to .NET 6, what tool should you run before porting, and what tool could you run to perform much of the porting work?
6. What is the difference between framework-dependent and self-contained deployments of .NET applications?
7. What is a RID?
8. What is the difference between the dotnet pack and dotnet publish commands?
9. What types of applications written for the .NET Framework can be ported to modern .NET?
10. Can you use packages written for .NET Framework with modern .NET?

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