I have written a Visual Studio Extension. It was written using Visual Studio 2010 andC#. The size of the Release Build of the dll is a little over 600KB. The .NET version is 4.0.
I've recently gotten the extension to compile and work in Visual Studio 2013. I had to use .NET 4.5 in this version because one of the reference assemblies required to work in VS 2013 does not exist in .NET 4.0.
The size of the release build dll produced by VS 2013 is ONLY 106 KB!
This is not a critical problem at all as all versions function correctly.
However, I would really like to know why there is nearly a six fold difference in sizes. 106 KB vs. 608 KB when comparing release build sizes.
By the way, both VS 2010 and VS 2013 produce a debug build that is 618 KB in size.
Charles S. Cotton