Category: Visual Studio
Everything we have written about NDepend and Visual Studio working together.
C# Async/Await Explained: Complete Guide with Examples [2025]
March 20, 2025 9 minutes read In modern C# and .NET development, the introduction of async/await has been a game-changer. While synchronous execution works in many cases, it can cause...
.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:...
.NET – 7 Decompiler Compared (2025)
January 10, 2025 9 minutes read Looking to reverse engineer or disassemble some .NET code? Then learning how to decompile .NET assemblies is an essential skill for any .NET developer...
Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code: The Ultimate Guide (2025)
January 8, 2025 8 minutes read In the world of .NET development, two popular tools stand out: Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio is generally recognized as a...
WPF vs WinForms – Making the Right Decision in 2025
January 7, 2025 7 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...
A Guide to Code Coverage Tools for C# in 2025
January 6, 2025 3 minutes read In this post, we’ll go through 8 different .NET code coverage tools and list their features to help you make a decision. But first,...
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...
C# Index and Range Operators Explained
April 24, 2024 3 minutes read In this post, we comprehensively demystify the C# index ^ and range .. operators. The index operator ^ Let’s start with the index ^...
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...
Clean Architecture in ASP.NET Core
April 16, 2024 9 minutes read The Clean Architecture pattern has gained significant popularity for the design and development of software applications. It emphasizes key principles to better maintain, scale,...
Architecture of a .NET Application: 8 Case Studies
January 30, 2024 9 minutes read This recent question on Reddit’s Number of projects per solution led to interesting debates. Of course, the answer depends largely on the overall size...
C# ValueTuple Full Guide
January 18, 2024 9 minutes read In 2017 C# 7.0 introduced ValueTuple. This feature makes it convenient to handle lightweight data structures. Here is an example of relying on the...
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...
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...
Modern C# Hello World
November 23, 2021 6 minutes read With Visual Studio 2022 when you create a new console project based on .NET 6, the Hello World source code generated is now as...
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-680c56fd3cef4382769431/] 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...
Visual Studio 2022 64 bits: Elements of history
May 11, 2021 7 minutes read Finally after all these years of waiting Visual Studio 2022 will run in a 64 bits process on 64 bits machines! As a consequence...
6 Reasons Visual Studio Theme Affects Productivity
April 14, 2021 4 minutes read Themes can be fascinating. Humans are vulnerable to attachments. It could be anything – person, thing, color, food, etc. some people are attracted to...