I was working on a presentation and was curious about how many types are in the .NET Framework 2.0. I had remembered a fine article by Panos Kougiouris in MSDN magazine that had used Reflection to determine that the 1.1 Framework had over 9000 types. I decided to run it on 2.0 -- total number came out over 28,600. If this trend continues, could WinFx end up with > 85K classes?
Here's the top 20 types based on Panos' app.
Type
Interface Inheitance
Class Inheritance
Property
Field
C'tor
Operator
Method
Total
System.Int32
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