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If you select the Resources option, you can include a Win32 resources file, which you can then access through code in your application. This is another advanced scenario beyond the scope of this book.

Assembly Information

Clicking Assembly Information shows the window in Figure 5-4. This information is included in the assembly metadata when you build your project. Most of the information in this window is self-explanatory. Since assemblies can comprise multiple files, you are allowed to vary the assembly (all files) and this file’s assembly version numbers.

With .NET, you can have two-way communications with Component Object Model (COM) applications. You can enable this by allowing your assembly to have a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) so that COM can find it, and check the COM visible box.

Leave the Neutral Language as None, unless you want the default locality to be something other than en-US, which is the locale for US English.

To see what these settings look like, press F6 to build the application, and then navigate to the location in the file system where you created the project. The location on my machine for this demo is C:\VS2010\Chapter05\SolutionDemo\ProjectDemo\bin\Debug, but yours could be different if you created your project in a different location. Regardless, you’ll find the ProjectDemo.exe file in the bin\Debug folder. Right-click ProjectDemo.exe, select Properties, and click the Details tab of the ProjectDemo Properties window, shown in Figure 5-5.

Figure 5-4 Assembly Information