Class limitations

[Smokey Grindle]

Is there any real or virtual class size limitations? such as number of
methods, properties or fields? I know its bad practice to make a class
outragiously large, but was just wondering if there was any. thanks!

[Charlie Brown]

Re: Class limitations

On May 24, 10:07 am, "Smokey Grindle" <nos...@nospam. comwrote:

Is there any real or virtual class size limitations? such as number of
methods, properties or fields? I know its bad practice to make a class
outragiously large, but was just wondering if there was any. thanks!

I can't imagine there is one, but I'm no expert on things like that.
However, I have seen classes that were very large in production
applications running without problem. Curiousity or do you have a 300
Method class on the way?

[Patrice]

Re: Class limitations

You could easily do some code that creates a class with dummy members for a
test. IMO the limit is likely theorical...

"Smokey Grindle" <nospam@nospam. coma écrit dans le message de news:
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Is there any real or virtual class size limitations? such as number of
methods, properties or fields? I know its bad practice to make a class
outragiously large, but was just wondering if there was any. thanks!
>

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Re: Class limitations

"Smokey Grindle" <nospam@nospam. comschrieb:

Is there any real or virtual class size limitations? such as number of
methods, properties or fields? I know its bad practice to make a class
outragiously large, but was just wondering if there was any. thanks!

I believe there is no practically relevant limit.

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Re: Class limitations

Smokey,

Everything inherits from one class and that class has than many members.

"Object"

Cor

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Is there any real or virtual class size limitations? such as number of
methods, properties or fields? I know its bad practice to make a class
outragiously large, but was just wondering if there was any. thanks!
>

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Re: Class limitations

Smokey Grindle wrote:

Is there any real or virtual class size limitations? such as number of
methods, properties or fields? I know its bad practice to make a class
outragiously large, but was just wondering if there was any. thanks!
>

There might be some limitations in the compiler or in the file format
for the compiled code. I would expect to see something like a limit of
2147483647 methods in a class.

IIRC 32 bit code can not handle memory structures larger than 4 GB.

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Göran Andersson
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http://www.guffa.com

[Smokey Grindle]

Re: Class limitations

just curious

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On May 24, 10:07 am, "Smokey Grindle" <nos...@nospam. comwrote:

>Is there any real or virtual class size limitations? such as number of
>methods, properties or fields? I know its bad practice to make a class
>outragiously large, but was just wondering if there was any. thanks!

>
I can't imagine there is one, but I'm no expert on things like that.
However, I have seen classes that were very large in production
applications running without problem. Curiousity or do you have a 300
Method class on the way?
>