Comprehensive Change List for Whidbey

I have compiled a list of new classes (including interfaces, delegates and enums) and new members (events, properties, and methods) in Whidbey into four separate tables in an Excel spreadsheet. This was done by writing code in both VS2003 and VS2005 to emit the framework's metadata into tabular form and then omitting metadata that was common to both versions of framework.

Below is one of the tables, condensed, summarizing how many new classes were added to each namespace. The other tables are very long as they include detailed information about the actual class or members introduced. You can examine them here. Download ChangesInWhidbey.zip.

Namespace	New Types
Microsoft.Win32	6
Microsoft.Win32.SafeHandles	5
System	53
System.CodeDom	9
System.CodeDom.Compiler	1
System.Collections	5
System.Collections.Generic	19
System.Collections.Specialized	1
System.ComponentModel	52
System.ComponentModel.Collections.Generic	1
System.ComponentModel.Design	6
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization	5
System.Configuration	100
System.Configuration.Provider	3
System.Data	19
System.Data.Common	29
System.Data.Odbc	4
System.Data.OleDb	5
System.Data.ProviderBase	12
System.Data.Sql	37
System.Data.SqlClient	27
System.Data.SqlTypes	31
System.Diagnostics	33
System.Diagnostics.SymbolStore	9
System.Drawing	6
System.Drawing.Design	1
System.Drawing.Printing	1
System.Globalization	12
System.IO	5
System.IO.Compression	3
System.IO.Ports	13
System.Net	39
System.Net.Cache	5
System.Net.Configuration	27
System.Net.Mail	13
System.Net.Mime	5
System.Net.NetworkInformation	38
System.Net.Security	7
System.Net.Sockets	3
System.Reflection	11
System.Reflection.Emit	3
System.Resources	4
System.Runtime.CompilerServices	27
System.Runtime.ConstrainedExecution	5
System.Runtime.InteropServices	23
System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes	57
System.Runtime.Reliability	4
System.Runtime.Remoting	1
System.Runtime.Serialization	5
System.Security	7
System.Security.AccessControl	63
System.Security.Authentication	6
System.Security.Cryptography	17
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates	2
System.Security.Permissions	13
System.Security.Policy	27
System.Security.Principal	9
System.Text	17
System.Threading	20
System.Windows.Forms	391
System.Windows.Forms.ComponentModel.Com2Interop	1
System.Windows.Forms.Layout	2
System.Windows.Forms.Printing	13
System.Windows.Forms.VisualStyles	49
System.Xml	9
System.Xml.Query	6
System.Xml.Schema	10
System.Xml.Serialization	14
System.Xml.XPath	11
Grand Total	1477

Comments

[Ben]

Thanks for the Excel tables. I immediately found many new additions that I had yet to notice. There's certainly a lot of new functionality that I'm sure will be useful.

[RichB]

Also see this:
http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2004/07/01/171209.aspx

[Max]

Thanks a lot for the Excel doc!

[Ed Draper]

The System.Web namespace additions are rather conspicuously absent.

[Kannan]

That was brilliant. Thanks for the excel doc, but I wonder you left the system.web namespace intentionally, thank you.

Thanks,
Kannan

[Martin Hyldahl]

Nice!

Thanks a lot for the Excel document!

[Omer van Kloeten]

It's a very nice thing to do and publish, but I constantly read Microsoft folks telling people that the API changes in Whidbey are perliminary.

I'd love to see a list like this when the final version comes out. :)

[Mike]

Good job on this list - really liked it and found it very useful today.

[patrick smacchia]

Thanks for the doc. Indeed it would be a good idea that MS publish for each beta the evolution until the final release.