What is Assembly?

Hello Experts.

I have searched about Assembly on Google but didn't get any good stuff and couldn't get what exactly mean of Assembly.

Is anyone having good leaning stuff of Assembly or can explain for a learner :) 

Thanks in advance.

taken from the documentation :

"Assemblies are the building blocks of .NET Framework applications; they form the fundamental unit of deployment, version control, reuse, activation scoping, and security permissions. An assembly is a collection of types and resources that are built to work together and form a logical unit of functionality. An assembly provides the common language runtime with the information it needs to be aware of type implementations. To the runtime, a type does not exist outside the context of an assembly."

for more information see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hk5f40ct%28VS.71%29.aspx

From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hk5f40ct(VS.90).aspx

"Assemblies are the building blocks of .NET Framework applications; they form the fundamental unit of deployment, version control, reuse, activation scoping, and security permissions. An assembly is a collection of types and resources that are built to work together and form a logical unit of functionality. An assembly provides the common language runtime with the information it needs to be aware of type implementations. To the runtime, a type does not exist outside the context of an assembly."

There are other links related to Assembly on that page.

Thank you Vinz and Raghav Sir.

Besides the answers from Vinz & Raghav, I would like to provide this link: http://weblogs.asp.net/hajan/archive/2010/07/03/working-with-embedded-resources-in-assembly.aspx which I've posted 2 weeks ago on how to use Assembly in .NET. So, I consider this might be useful for you :).

Regards,
Hajan