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What is the total number of classes in .NET? The number that is in the downloaded runtime for .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and .NET 3.5 SP1. We are writing a scientific paper about an application that is based on .NET and currently state that there are more than 6000 classes. But I am not sure if this is the correct number. For instance this page states the number of assemblies, namespaces, methods, etc., but not the number of classes. Test platform: Windows XP 64 bit SP2, 8 GB RAM. Update 4 : Our paper has been published! I used 9911 for the number of classes (see update 3 below). The journal is Journal of Proteome Research and the title is: " MSQuant, an Open Source Platform for Mass Spectrometry-Based Quantitative Proteomics ". Unfortunately the full text of the paper is not freely available, only the abstract. Update 3 : I think I have come very close to a solution now: 9911 public classes for .NET 3.5 SP1. Extending on update 1, I have made the function recursive and extended it so the number of types, classes and public classes are reported for any sub-folder and its subfolders. Running this on C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET gives 40414 types, only 0.2 % from the number in the referenced article . Full transcript - HTML source is tab separated so it can be imported into a spreadsheet, e.g. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice

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