.NET 4.0 Full Size

[Corrado Cavalli]

I’m a little confused: from what I read v4.0 is about 54 MB (x86+x64) vs. nearly 250 MB of 3.5 Sp1.

Am I right? Is the full size so small compared with other versions?

I’m not speaking about client profile that should be around 37 MB.

 

Corrado

 

 

[Jaime Rodriguez]

Hey Corrado, your numbers look right.   

[Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft]

Holy cow. Did you guys just went ahead and removed all unused stuff, like WinForms, ASP.NET WebForms and other legacies from the past? (ducks and runs ;))

 

Cheers,

Laurent

[Peter O'Hanlon]

Well, that would make me a happy bunny. The rest is just fluff for those who aren't studly (or foxy for our lady members) enough to handle WPF and Silverlight.

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Peter O'Hanlon

[Corrado Cavalli]

Hey Jaime,

What a diet! Can i ask how did you trimmed it to 1/3^rd of the 3.5 SP1? Just sport & Diet Coke? J

 

Thanks

Corrado

 

 

From: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wpf-di...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jaime Rodriguez
Sent: mercoledì 4 novembre 2009 09:39
To: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [WPF Disciples] Re: .NET 4.0 Full Size

 

Hey Corrado, your numbers look right.   

 

 

From: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com [mailto:wpf-di...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Corrado Cavalli
Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:26 AM
To: wpf-di...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [WPF Disciples] .NET 4.0 Full Size

 

I’m a little confused: from what I read v4.0 is about 54 MB (x86+x64) vs. nearly 250 MB of 3.5 Sp1.

[Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft]

They just zipped all the assemblies J

 

Laurent

[Daniel Vaughan]

It's a release build this time. ;)

On Nov 4, 3:19 pm, "Laurent Bugnion, GalaSoft" <laur...@galasoft.ch>
wrote:

[Josh Smith]

I think they just dropped all the DataSet-related crapola. ;)

[Scott Guthrie]

No – no assemblies were removed with .NET 4.0.  Instead we optimized the setup technology and compression and did a few other tricks which made the package smaller.

 

Note that 54MB is x86+x64.  There is also a smaller package (I think 36MB) for just x86.  There is then the client profile which is under 30MB for WPF/WinForms and client development.

 

Thanks,

 

Scott

[Sacha Barber]

Excellent work. Small footprint is nice.

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Sacha Barber
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[Peter O'Hanlon]

Excellent news Scott - I know a few of the WPF gainsayers on Code Project that I can shut up with this. I owe you a pint or two for that;->

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Scott Guthrie <sco...@microsoft.com> wrote:

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Peter O'Hanlon

[Justin Angel]

Right, it’s important to stress out that the uncompressed versions are still big framework whales.

The full .Net 4.0 uncompressed takes about 400MB~ (.Net 3.5SP1 is 385MB~), and Client profile is around 250MB~.

 

 

All in all, Silverlight uncompressed is about 24MB and 4MB~ compressed, and takes less than 10 seconds to install.

Silverlight is the framework equivalent of a blowfish.

 

Mono and Moonlight (which are alternative .Net implementations for “other” operating systems) have similar size stats.

But as someone described last week: “Mono isn’t a whale, it’s a beautiful and regal manatee”.

 

 

 

-- Justin

(Really, how often do you get to use pictures of manatees in this job? This is my first time.)