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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...
NDepend April 19, 2018

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...
NDepend March 13, 2018

New .NET Core 2.1 and ASP.NET Core 2.1 APIs

March 8, 2018 3 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...
NDepend March 8, 2018

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...
NDepend November 13, 2017

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...
NDepend October 12, 2017

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...
NDepend September 5, 2017

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...
NDepend August 3, 2017

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....
NDepend April 19, 2016

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...
NDepend March 7, 2016

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...
NDepend February 24, 2016

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 February 23, 2016

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 December 3, 2015

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...
NDepend November 11, 2015

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...
NDepend July 21, 2015

NDepend version 6 insights

June 16, 2015 9 minutes read Welcome to the brand new NDepend blog! This blog will talk about NDepend of course, announcements, directions, features advanced usage, but this blog will...
NDepend June 16, 2015