Category: Visual Studio
Everything we have written about NDepend and Visual Studio working together.
.NET – 7 Decompiler Compared (2026)
May 25, 2026 9 minutes read Need to read the C# behind a compiled assembly? A good .NET decompiler turns IL code back into readable C# in seconds, and most...
C# Async/Await Explained: Complete Guide with Examples [2026]
May 22, 2026 9 minutes read Mastering C# async / await is key to building fast, scalable .NET apps. Introduced in C# 5 back in 2012, the C# async and...
Modern C# Hello World
May 21, 2026 9 minutes read The modern C# Hello World is a single line of code: [crayon-6a5669ab4cf32231320055/] No class, no Main() method and no using directive to write. Three...
A Guide to Code Coverage Tools for C# in 2026
May 17, 2026 2 minutes read In this post, we’ll walk through 8 different .NET code coverage tools and list their features to help you make a decision. The tools...
Visual Studio Enterprise vs. Professional
May 12, 2026 2 minutes read If you write .NET code for a living, you might spend your day inside Visual Studio. The catch is that “Visual Studio” isn’t one...
The Road to Visual Studio 2027
April 16, 2026 9 minutes read At the Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas 2026 keynote, Mads Kristensen laid out the vision for the future of development tools—centered on a bold...
Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code: The Ultimate Guide (2026)
December 30, 2025 8 minutes read Despite their similar name, Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are two distinct products created by Microsoft. Visual Studio is a full-featured Integrated Development...
WPF vs WinForms – Making the Right Decision in 2026
December 29, 2025 8 minutes read If you’re a developer faced with the decision of selecting between Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Forms (WinForms) commonly referred to as WPF...
Visual Studio Next Version: What’s Coming and What to Expect
September 1, 2025 6 minutes read In mid-August 2025, Mads Kristensen, lead designer of the C# programming language, discussed with his team The Future of Visual Studio in a YouTube...
C# ValueTuple Full Guide
July 28, 2025 9 minutes read C# 7.0 introduced ValueTuple in 2017, making it easier to work with lightweight data structures.Here’s an example using ValueTuple with the () syntax to...
Architecture of a .NET Application: 8 Case Studies
July 10, 2025 8 minutes read This recent question on Reddit’s Number of projects per solution led to interesting debates. The answer depends on the app’s size and domain. In...
Clean Architecture in ASP.NET Core
July 7, 2025 9 minutes read As applications scale, flexibility and maintainability become essential. .NET Core Clean Architecture provides a clear structure with minimal dependencies, making it a popular choice....
C# Index and Range Operators Explained
May 24, 2025 3 minutes read In this post, we comprehensively demystify the C# index ^ and range .. operators. The index operator ^ Let’s start with the index ^...
.slnx The New .NET Solution XML File Format
March 17, 2025 3 minutes read On March 13th, 2025 Microsoft officially announced the a new .NET solution file format with file extension .slnx. For example for this simple solution:...
C# static abstract members
May 14, 2024 5 minutes read C# 11 proposed interface members declared as static abstract. This is useful to handle both: Polymorphism at the type level, for example when abstracting...
Covariance and Contravariance in C# Explained
May 2, 2024 6 minutes read Introduction Covariance and contravariance allow more flexibility when dealing with C# class hierarchy. This article explains and demonstrates the concepts of Covariance and Contravariance...
Will Visual Studio Be Migrated to .NET Core and Become Multi-Platform?
April 22, 2024 7 minutes read I came across comments on a recent Reddit post and thought it would be intriguing to analyze the DLLs of Visual Studio 2022 (version...
Improve Visual Studio Build Performance
August 11, 2023 7 minutes read Time is your most precious asset and slow build is high in the list of developer’s productivity killers. With slow build the penalty is...
.NET Build Improvement: Stop Wasting Resources
February 4, 2023 5 minutes read I am working on .NET development full-time since 2002 and there is a point that still annoys me after all these years: the default...
C# 11 required members
November 15, 2022 3 minutes read C# 11 proposes the new keyword required that can apply to an instance property or an instance field declaration within a class, a record...
Visual Studio vs. Jetbrains Rider Performance
June 28, 2022 5 minutes read I work daily with Visual Studio since 1997 but still use Rider from time to time to keep up with progresses since we plan...
WPF / Winforms UI Refactoring: A Case Study
May 11, 2022 4 minutes read WPF and Winforms are still so massively used that Microsoft fully supports those technologies in .NET Core, .NET 5, 6 , 7 and so...
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...
Solution to Visual Studio 2022 messing up Visual Studio 2019
November 10, 2021 3 minutes read As all .NET developers I am quite excited by Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 going RTM. However I noticed that Visual Studio 2022...
Debugging a .NET App on Linux from Windows Visual Studio with WSL
September 15, 2021 6 minutes read NDepend analysis, reporting, API and Power-Tools will run on Linux and MacOS with the next version 2021.2. To achieve that, a major refactoring session...
Code Testability: A Case Study
September 1, 2021 2 minutes read [crayon-6a5669ab4dcb8898501084/] This method is untestable because its logic depends on NdpOperatingSystem.Kind which returns an OSPlatform object. Notice the usage of the attribute UncoverableByTest that...
3 productivity Resharper features missing in Visual Studio
August 10, 2021 5 minutes read Resharper is a great Visual Studio productivity extension but on the other hand it slows down significantly the IDE, especially when working with large...
Top 10 New .NET 6.0 API
July 7, 2021 5 minutes read .NET 6 introduces new handy APIs that will make our development journey easier. Let’s go through the top 10 new API in terms of...
How to Logically Name Embedded Resources in .csproj?
June 16, 2021 1 minutes read You can work with .NET for two decades and still discover some useful stuff. One thing that bothered me till now is that an...
On replacing Thread.Abort() in .NET Core
May 19, 2021 3 minutes read Thread.Abort() is not supported in .NET 5 / .NET Core We are actually migrating the NDepend analysis and reporting to .NET 5 and figured...