Rob Chartier ~ Contemplation...

Thanks for the quick dig.

Yes, not out of my expectation.

Inspired indirectly by my post about the longest class name in J2SE, Rob Chartier looked for the longest and shortest type names in .NET Looks like he includes the .NET equivalents of package names and nested class names, and...

Note to your EDIT: System.GC is the shortest public class name.

Using DotLisp and my extra.lisp patch: (Not all system assemblies loaded)

> (for-each-type t (when (and t.IsPublic (<= t.Name.Length 3)) (prns t.FullName)))
System.GC
System.Security.Cryptography.DES
System.Security.Cryptography.DSA
System.Security.Cryptography.MD5
System.Security.Cryptography.RC2
System.Security.Cryptography.RSA
System.Security.Policy.Url
System.Uri
System.Net.Dns
System.Windows.Forms.Day
System.Drawing.Pen

> (for-each-type t (when (and t.IsPublic (>= t.Name.Length 39)) (prns t.FullName)))
System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicUnexpectedOperationException
System.Security.Policy.ApplicationDirectoryMembershipCondition
System.CodeDom.CodeParameterDeclarationExpressionCollection
System.CodeDom.CodePropertySetValueReferenceExpression
System.ComponentModel.DesignerSerializationVisibilityAttribute
System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounterPermissionEntryCollection
System.Windows.Forms.IDataGridColumnStyleEditingNotificationService
System.Windows.Forms.DataGridPreferredColumnWidthTypeConverter
System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializationCollectionFixupCallback
>

David Flanagan: If you're looking at full names for PUBLIC classes

System.GC

is shortest at 9, and

System.Windows.Forms.ComponentModel.Com2Interop.ICom2PropertyPageDisplayService

is longest at 79.

Again, using DotLisp:

> (for-each-type t (when (and t.IsPublic (<= t.FullName.Length 11)) (prns t.FullName)))
System.Enum
System.Byte
System.Char
System.GC
System.Guid
System.Math
System.Type
System.Void
System.Uri
> (for-each-type t (when (and t.IsPublic (>= t.FullName.Length 69)) (prns t.FullName)))
System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicUnexpectedOperationException
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.DesignerSerializerAttribute
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.IDesignerSerializationManager
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.IDesignerSerializationProvider
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.IDesignerSerializationService
System.ComponentModel.Design.Serialization.RootDesignerSerializerAttribute
System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates.X509CertificateCollection
System.Windows.Forms.ComponentModel.Com2Interop.ICom2PropertyPageDisplayService

This is as useless as useless posts go but.... I happen to be on MSDN the other day (via Google) and

If you feel disheartened because of the dreadful amount of effort it requires to hit upon what you are searching for, relax because you are one step closer to your goal.

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