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Visualizing the .NET Framework

Posted by kdawson on from the drowning-in-code dept.

eldavojohn writes "If you're a Web developer, you should check out a quick post about the number of types, methods, & fields in the .NET framework. This was done using NDepend. The numbers are quite large — e.g. 39,509 types. The blogger went on to generate tree maps and a dependency matrix."

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  1. Re:Answer: No Thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Let me get this straight.

    1. You argue that .NET lacks "internal logic" and "simplicity" after pointing to the article. Never mind that the article merely only reported statistics about the .NET framework instead of asserting that it, does, in fact, support your arguments. So this claim remains baseless, unless you're trying to say lots of types somehow means it lacks internal logic and simplicity. We are waiting for your keen insight on this point.

    2. Another user questions your assumption rather innocently.

    3. You imply that they did not read the article (which is rather hilarious considering the previous point) and then, to add the icing to the cake, indicate you'd much rather work on Mono. Mono is a version of .NET that runs on non-MS platforms and is compatible at the bytecode level. What sort of examination have you done on the source code of it to determine that it has "simplicity" and "internal logic?" How does it meet those goals, yet have the same external API of .NET? How does it not suffer from "bloatedness" if it has at least as many publically available classes as .NET?

    We await your answers, mighty Naughty Bob.