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I'm just poking around the new framework, dealing with corflags and CLR Header versions (more on that later), but what I found is the following.

Do a dir *.dll /o:-s in the framework directory. You get this on .NET FX 4.0 beta 2 box:

[c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework64\v4.0.21006]dir *.dll /o:-s

 Volume in drive C is 7  Serial number is 1ED5:8CA5
 Directory of  C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.21006\*.dll

 7.10.2009 3:44   9.833.784  clr.dll
 7.10.2009 2:44   6.072.664  System.ServiceModel.dll
 7.10.2009 2:44   5.251.928  System.Windows.Forms.dll
 7.10.2009 6:04   5.088.584  System.Web.dll
 7.10.2009 5:31   5.086.024  System.Design.dll
 7.10.2009 3:44   4.927.808  mscorlib.dll
 7.10.2009 3:44   3.529.608  Microsoft.VB.Activities.Compiler.dll
 7.10.2009 2:44   3.501.376  System.dll
 7.10.2009 2:44   3.335.000  System.Data.Entity.dll
 7.10.2009 3:44   3.244.360  System.Data.dll
 7.10.2009 2:44   2.145.096  System.XML.dll
 7.10.2009 5:31   1.784.664  System.Web.Extensions.dll
 7.10.2009 2:44   1.711.488  System.Windows.Forms.DataVis.dll
 7.10.2009 5:31   1.697.128  System.Web.DataVis.dll
 7.10.2009 5:31   1.578.352  System.Workflow.ComponentModel.dll
 7.10.2009 3:44   1.540.928  clrjit.dll
 7.10.2009 3:44   1.511.752  mscordacwks.dll
 7.10.2009 3:44   1.454.400  mscordbi.dll
 7.10.2009 2:44   1.339.248  System.Activities.Presentation.dll
 7.10.2009 5:31   1.277.776  Microsoft.Build.dll
 7.10.2009 2:44   1.257.800  System.Core.dll
 7.10.2009 2:44   1.178.448  System.Activities.dll
 7.10.2009 5:31   1.071.464  System.Workflow.Activities.dll
 7.10.2009 5:31   1.041.256  Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v4.0.dll
 7.10.2009 2:44   1.026.920  System.Runtime.Serialization.dll

Funny how many engineer dollars are/were spent on middle tier technologies I love.

Proof: System.ServiceModel.dll is bigger then System.dll, System.Windows.Forms.dll, mscorlib.dll, and System.Data.dll.

We only bow to clr.dll, a new .NET 4.0 Common Language Runtime implementation.