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 we added in SP1, I think this seems like fairly modest growth of the framework.
Patrick also includes some cool eye charts to help visualize the changes... I am not sure you'll see this poster as a marketing give away at the next conference, but it is pretty neat to look at..
Enjoy!
