What is a Managed Module (compared to an Assembly)?

Question

What is Managed Module in .NET and how is it different from Assemblies? Is a PE file (eg. test.dll) a managed module or an assembly? How does assembly/managed module corresp

Answer 1

Managed modules are the compiled IL versions of the source code. The extension of the file that is built when making a module from source files is .netmodule.

Assemblies are either DLLs or .exe files containing managed modules, resources, and metadata.