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Not planning now to migrate your .NET 4.8 legacy, is certainly a mistake
January 16, 2020 4 minutes read 2020 will see the achievement of the massive remodeling of the .NET platform initiated by Microsoft in November 2014 with the introduction of .NET...
4 Predictions for the Future of .NET
October 8, 2019 6 minutes read In May 2019, Microsoft officially announced .NET 5, the future of .NET: it will be based on all the .NET Core work already achieved....
.NET Core 3.0 New APIs
September 25, 2019 2 minutes read .NET Core 3.0 has just been released, see here the official announcement. In this post we’re going to explain how to list and explore...
Find API Breaking Changes in your .NET Libraries and Frameworks
September 24, 2019 3 minutes read If you are developing a framework, the last thing you want to happen when releasing a new version of your product is to break...
Business Complexity vs. Implementation Complexity
September 19, 2019 6 minutes read It is good software design practice to make sure that methods can be entirely viewed in the code editor that typically shows 30 to...
Answers to arguments against 100% coverage
September 10, 2019 7 minutes read I’ve been enthusiast about 100% coverage for more than a decade. The large code base of NDepend we are working on will reach soon...
Static Analysis and Dependency Injection
September 3, 2019 4 minutes read For quite some years now, we (the NDepend team) got some demand about resolving Dependency Injection, see this page on our User Voices. Lately...
Are SOLID principles Cargo Cult?
August 13, 2019 6 minutes read My last post about SOLID Design: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) generated some discussion on reddit. The discussion originated from a remark considering SOLID...
Identify .NET Code Structure Patterns with no Effort
July 16, 2019 7 minutes read The two pillars of code maintainability are automatic testing and clean code structure. Testing is used to regularly challenge code correctness and detect regression...
Ensure that your classes are declared as sealed when possible
July 10, 2019 3 minutes read Inheritance is one of the pillar of OOP. However, in the real world, most classes are not designed to be properly inheritable. Properly designing...
The continuous adaptation of Visual Studio extensions
July 4, 2019 5 minutes read One could think that developing an extension for a two-decades+ product as mature as Visual Studio is headache-less. Not really. Visual Studio is a...
Simplifying a Visual Studio extension menu: A Case Study
April 2, 2019 4 minutes read NDepend version 2019.2.1 has just been released. This new version proposes a simplified menu for the NDepend Visual Studio extension. Before going further I...
An in-depth analysis of .NET Core 3.0 support for WPF and Winforms APIs
February 28, 2019 5 minutes read .NET Core 3.0 will be RTM soon and it supports WPF and Winforms APIs. In my last post I’ve been exploring .NET Core 3.0...
Exploring .NET Core 3.0 new API
February 21, 2019 9 minutes read .NET Core 3.0 is representing a major step for the .NET community. It is interesting to analyze what’s new in the API directly from...
Advanced Code Search : A Case Study
January 16, 2019 3 minutes read This morning I stumbled on a complex test to write. The need was to create and show a custom Form (written with Windows Form)...
NDepend and .NET Fx v4.7.2: an extension method collision and how to solve it easily
May 17, 2018 2 minutes read In Oct 2017 I wrote about the potential collision problem with extension methods. At that time the .NET Framework 4.7.1 was just released with...
Quickly assess your .NET code compliance with .NET Standard
April 19, 2018 4 minutes read Yesterday evening I had an interesting discussion about the feasibility of migrating parts of the NDepend code to .NET Standard to ultimately run it...
Checking DDD Ubiquitous Language with NDepend
March 13, 2018 4 minutes read Since NDepend version 2018.1, the tool proposes a default rule to check Domain Driven Design (DDD) Ubiquitous Language validity. DDD Ubiquitous Language Let’s quote Martin Fowler...
New .NET Core 2.1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 APIs
March 8, 2018 2 minutes read .NET Core 2.1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview1 have just been released (see here the official announcement) and we are going to explore new...
A problem with extension methods
November 13, 2017 2 minutes read We like extension methods. When named accordingly they can both make the caller code clearer, and isolate static methods from classes on which they...
Static analysis of .NET Core 2.0 applications
October 12, 2017 3 minutes read NDepend v2017.3 has just been released with major improvements. One of the most requested features, now available, is the support for analyzing .NET Core 2.0...
Migrating from HTTP to HTTPS in a IIS / ASP.NET environment
September 5, 2017 5 minutes read Google is urging more and more webmasters to move their sites to HTTPS for security reasons. We did this move last week for our IIS...
Our experience with using third-party libraries
August 3, 2017 5 minutes read NDepend is a tool that helps .NET developers write beautiful code. The project was started in April 2004. It is now used by more...
Code Metric Visualization: Lines of Code and Code Coverage
April 19, 2016 1 minutes read One of the features of NDepend that we get a lot of positive feedback about is its data visualization, and it’s really no surprise....
A Visual Studio script that saves time and pain
March 7, 2016 2 minutes read After years of pain, I finally found a clean-and-definitive way to get rid of the dreadful issue Could not copy assembly, the process cannot...
The Better Code Book – Our MVPs of 2015
February 24, 2016 3 minutes read We firmly believe spaghetti belongs on the dinner table and not in code. Our mission when starting NDepend was to create a tool to...
How Siemens Healthcare manages over 500 million lines of code – An NDepend Case Study
February 23, 2016 1 minutes read Siemens Healthcare produces imaging equipment for the medical sector in a variety of fields and is based in Germany. Looking to reduce development costs on...
NDepend updated to Version 6.2
December 3, 2015 2 minutes read NDepend version 6.2 has just been released. We have addressed over 20 bug fixes, including a blocker one for Visual Studio 2015 update 1 Git...
NDepend Case Study: Increasing Development Efficiency in the Medical Laboratory Sector
November 11, 2015 2 minutes read Developing applications for use in the health care industry is stressful because the margin of error is almost non-existent. Whether your tool is for...
Toward Bug Free Software: Lines of Defense
July 21, 2015 9 minutes read Hurrah!! Last week we released NDepend v6 RTM. Once again we relied on a 2 months private beta-testing period and a one month Release Candidate period to do...