Towards an Empirical Analysis of .NET Framework and C# Language Features' Adoption

Software companies such as Microsoft periodically release new versions of the .NET framework and C# language suites. New features are introduced in each of these new releases. Currently, there is little or no empirical analysis of the adoption of .NET framework and C# programming language features and studies on how successfully those features are accepted by the community. The aim of this work is to create a set of long term statistics about the use of the new .NET and C# language features across existing popular libraries.