Monday, March 17, 2008 10:16 PM
I used to have a MSDN magazine poster that showed all the .NET name spaces and types in nice diagrams. That was when the .NET 2.0 debuted. Ever since then I have lost track of it although .NET evolved quite a lot (3.0 & 3.5). Maybe you haven't really asked yourself how big the .NET framework actually is, and you may get shocked that the number of name spaces and assemblies in .NET framework almost doubled from .NET 2.0 (Nov 2005) to .NET 3.5 (Dec 2007) in2 years time. Check this interesting blog post Number of Types in the .NET Framework from Brad Abrams.