Category: Programming
General thoughts and stories about programming and life as a programmer.
NDepend vs. ReSharper
October 14, 2024 1 minutes read Not too long ago, someone asked me for a comparison of ReSharper (commonly and affectionately abbreviated R#) and NDepend. I didn’t really grok the...
Avoid Technical Debt with NDepend
July 14, 2024 2 minutes read The term “technical debt” has become ubiquitous in the programming world. In the most general sense, it reflects the idea that you’re doing something...
Improve Your Code Review Game with NDepend
April 21, 2024 3 minutes read Code review is a subject with which I’m quite familiar. I’m familiar first as a participant, both reviewing and being reviewed, but it goes...
Why Should Managers Care About Static Analysis?
March 22, 2024 5 minutes read I’d like to talk a bit today about how, if you’re a dev manager for a team or teams that are responsible for .NET...
SOLID Design in C#: The Open-Close Principle (OCP)
November 20, 2023 7 minutes read The Open-Close Principle (OCP) is one of the five essential SOLID design principles. These principles are guidelines for the proper usage of object-oriented features....
SOLID Design in C#: The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) with Examples
November 13, 2023 6 minutes read The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) is one of the five essential SOLID design principles. These principles are guidelines for the proper usage of object-oriented features. The...
SOLID Design in C#: The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
November 13, 2023 7 minutes read The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) is one of the five essential SOLID design principles. These principles are guidelines for the proper usage of object-oriented features. Named after...
Visual Studio Enterprise vs. Professional: Essential Differences in 2023
November 8, 2023 1 minutes read If you’re a .NET developer, chances are you’re using Visual Studio, the go-to product for developing .NET applications. However, with several versions available, it...
REST vs. RESTful: The Difference and Why the Difference Doesn’t Matter
November 2, 2023 1 minutes read REST API is one of the most popular APIs in the web development community. What’s the difference between a REST API and a RESTful...
How to collect return values from Parallel.ForEach?
January 26, 2022 1 minutes read Today I took 10 minutes to answer the 9 years old stackoverflow’s question: How do I collect return values from Parallel.ForEach? I though the...
How to Plan Large-Scale Refactoring?
February 23, 2021 6 minutes read The .NET platform exists for two decades and nowadays the technology is evolving faster than ever. It is now time for serious .NET...
10 Reasons Why You Should Write Tests
February 9, 2021 8 minutes read As many, I started programming when I was a child 3 decades years ago. With no doubt, the most important practice I’ve adopted during...
Include IL Offset into Production Exception Stack Traces
February 2, 2021 3 minutes read In a previous post The proper usages of Exceptions in C# I explained that it is important to get as much information as possible...
Is Artificial Intelligence Assisted Coding the Next Developer Productivity Silver Bullet?
January 26, 2021 9 minutes read The famous Fred Brooks paper “No Silver Bullet – Essence and Accident in Software Engineering“ published in 1987 stated that: “there is no single development,...
Visual Studio IntelliCode : AI Assisted Coding
January 19, 2021 5 minutes read We are all amazed by recent progresses made possible thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI). In 2017 Microsoft announced Visual Studio IntelliCode which used Machine...
How we quickly refactored with Resharper more than 23.000 calls to Debug.Assert() into more meaningful assertions
January 11, 2021 6 minutes read Since the NDepend inception more than 15 years ago, we stuffed our code with calls to Debug.Assert(). This results today in more than 23.000...
The proper usages of Exceptions in C#
December 16, 2020 9 minutes read The C# exception basics are generally well understood. However exceptions are often used as a way to sweep error handling duty under the carpet....
The proper usages of the keyword ‘static’ in C#
December 8, 2020 6 minutes read The keyword static is somewhat awkward in a pure Oriented-Object world. I would like to explain here what are the right usages of static I...
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?...
Strategies to Catch Regression Bugs before Production: A Case Study
October 19, 2020 6 minutes read That’s quite a coincidence that a few days after promoting the joy of immutability in the post C#9 records: immutable classes we stumbled on...
New C#9 keywords ‘and’ ‘or’ ‘not’
October 5, 2020 4 minutes read HoweverThe C#9 language introduces new controversial keywords: and keyword: Conjunctive patterns. Require both patterns to match or keyword: Disjunctive patterns. Require either pattern to...
10 Visual Studio Ninja Code Editor Productivity Tips
June 24, 2020 3 minutes read Among the multiple daily development tasks (planning, testing, refactoring, bug fix…) code edition is arguably the most satisfying one. Code edition can be even...
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...
Service Oriented Architecture: A Dead Simple Explanation
January 8, 2019 1 minutes read Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been with us for a long time. The term first appeared in 1998, and since then it’s grown in popularity....
C# Features: An Exhaustive List of the Best Ones
December 18, 2018 1 minutes read The first post I wrote for the NDepend blog was about C# 8.0 features. That post inspired a sequel, followed by the series’ final...
Coupling in Programming: What This Means and How Not to Get Burned
December 4, 2018 1 minutes read What is coupling in programming? Is it something we want to avoid when we design and write code? If so, why? And more importantly,...
Mentoring Software Developers as an Architect
November 27, 2018 1 minutes read A while back we discussed the unique career path architects have to travel. We wrote that article for developers who want to advance their...
Self Documenting Code vs. Comments? Turns Out It’s Both or Neither
November 20, 2018 1 minutes read It’s been about a month since my last research post, and I’ve been musing about the next topic. What should it be? Well, I’ve...
Should Architects Write Code? You Bet They Should!
October 30, 2018 1 minutes read There’s a common misconception that’s permeated our profession: Architects don’t need to write code to do their jobs. Now, this may seem like a...
When Is It Okay to Use a C# Partial Class?
October 16, 2018 1 minutes read Today’s post attempts to answer a very simple and straightforward question: “When is it OK to use a C# partial class?” And the answer as...