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Vertical Slice Architecture in ASP.NET Core

April 26, 2024 6 minutes read The organization of code in a solution is a subject of frequent debates. Currently, two prominent approaches have garnered attention: Clean Architecture versus Vertical...
NDepend April 26, 2024

Clean Architecture Refactoring: A Case Study

April 27, 2021 9 minutes read Introduction to Clean Architecture The recent post Clean Architecture for ASP.NET Core Solution: A Case Study explained that one of the most interesting property...
NDepend April 27, 2021

When your brain can’t handle the complexity: NDepend and PostSharp

November 2, 2020 5 minutes read The size and complexity of codebases have exploded in the last decade. What can you do when your codebase no longer fits your brain?...
NDepend November 2, 2020

.NET 5.0 App Trimming and Potential for Future Progress

September 28, 2020 7 minutes read In this article we will: go through the various ways to publish a .NET 5.0 application, play with .NET 5.0 app trimming to reduce...
NDepend September 28, 2020

Architecture of a C# game rendered with Blazor, Xamarin, UWP, WPF, and Winforms

September 15, 2020 5 minutes read When I wrote my last post Blazor Internals you need to know I came across this great project on github: AsteroidsWasm. This project is...
NDepend September 15, 2020

10 Visual Studio Navigation Productivity Tips

July 14, 2020 6 minutes read A large code base is a complex asset. Visual Studio is a complex environment. In this context developers spend a significant part of their...
NDepend July 14, 2020

Top 10 Visual Studio Refactoring Tips

July 7, 2020 6 minutes read With the version 2019 Visual Studio is now mature when it comes to refactoring. This post proposes a tour of the top 10 most...
NDepend July 7, 2020

Case Study : Complex UI Testing

April 29, 2020 6 minutes read In the previous post Case Study: 2 Simple Principles to achieve High Code Maintainability I explained that the principles layered code + high coverage...
NDepend April 29, 2020

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...
NDepend September 19, 2019

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...
NDepend July 16, 2019

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

Without Seeing Your Application’s Dependency Graph, You’re Flying Blind

October 12, 2017 2 minutes read Software architecture tends to be a pretty hard game.  Writing scripts and little toy apps is easy enough.  You build something and then you...
Erik Dietrich October 12, 2017