Private Assembly

A Private assembly is one which is used by an individual application; it is private to that application and is not shared with any other application in the system. Private assemblies are usually placed in the same folder or in a sub-folder where the application files reside.

Private Assemblies do not have specific version information, since the parent application is just going to refer the latest assembly file in its folder/sub-folder.

Private Assemblies come in handy when you want to build a stand-alone application which needs to be packed and deployed in other machines without any other dependencies. All the application files and the related assembly files can be placed in the same folder.

These types of Assemblies can be used to develop product demos etc which should be highly portable to be deployed in various systems.