“This goes against just about every software development best practice there…”
Lets slow the roll a bit. I did not proport this as a general design pattern or recommendation. We all understand importance of libraries. The question at hand was how to remove dead code to save space (If your not on a cobra - it matters). The compiler does not do this for us. So the only way currently is to do it afaict is manually. A 40K library on big .Net is nothing, but on MF could break the bank. So we do have different problem space on MF that we don’t have otherwise. . If you have another way to remove dead code, please let us know. I was hoping Dotfuscator could help (or other obfuscator with dead-code removal such as Xenocode), but I could not get it to work on MF project. Maybe someone has more info on that.