Patrick Smacchia , of NDepend fame, has done a detailed, low level look at exactly what changed in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Some data he lists: # Assemblies 112 # Namespaces 919 to 935 (+16 +1.7%) # Types 39 988 to 40 513 (+525 +1.3%) # Methods 387 421 to 386 790 (-631 -0.2%) # Fields 241 567 to 246 795 (+5 228 +2.2%) # IL instructions 8 598 933 to 8 620 940 (+22 007 +0.3%) Overall, for the amount of new functionality...(read more) ...
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