Now the Fun Begins

Last night at 4:46pm, Sara Williams announced the availability of Microsoft’s 4+ years of labor: the Microsoft .NET Framework, v1.0. And then, at 5:59pm, the great land rush to download the matching VS.NET bits began. Here are some links you may find interesting as you move to the RTM of  .NET and VS.NET:

• .NET Framework SDK
• .NET Framework Redistributable
• VS.NET MSDN Member Download
• About Upgrading .NET

Here are some fun facts for you:

• The compressed VS.NET Enterprise Architect download is 1.8GB and it took my puny cable model 4+ hours to download.
• It took my laptop (574MHz, 512MB RAM) 30+ minutes to unzip.
• The resulting pre-installed folder was 2.45GB.
• The .NET runtime build number is 3705.
• The VS.NET build number is 9466.
• The codename for .NET was “Lightning” (hence the ildasm icon).
• The codename for C# was “Cool” (hence the “C# is Cool” t-shirt).
• Mike Woodring’s most excellent asmstats tool reveals the following:
  
  Done processing c:\windows\microsoft.net\Framework\v1.0.3705.
  Processed 69 assemblies comprising 70 modules.
  
  Types: 8,866 (of any kind)
  Classes: 5,602 (2,183 public)
  Attributes: 297 (257 public)
  Delegates: 334 (213 public)
  Interfaces: 983 (659 public)
  Enums: 1,085 (710 public)
  Value types: 565 (121 public)
  
  Members: 414,990 (of any kind, instance and static)
  Methods: 281,630 instance, 12,797 static
  Events: 13,160 instance, 24 static
  Properties: 44,689 instance, 1,233 static
  Fields: 28,478 instance, 32,979 static

Congrats to the Microsoft .NET team for a job well done!