Interesting comparison

So far I written my web service based Hello World! app in Mono and .NET 2.0 beta:

Language Project Size (KB) Binary Size¹ (KB)

Mono² 20.6 8

NET 2.0³ 23.5 20

Mono produces one output file, Visual C# Express produces five! What on earth is .NET putting in there?

¹ Compiled in Debug mode

² Using GTK#

³ Using System.Windows.Forms