Category: Visual Studio
Everything we have written about NDepend and Visual Studio working together.
.NET Decompilers Compared: A Comprehensive Guide (2023)
Looking to reverse engineer or disassemble some .NET code? Then learning how to decompile .NET assemblies is a an essential skill for any .NET developer or security engineer. Fortunately, there...
Clean Architecture for ASP.NET Core Solution: A Case Study
In this post we’ll explore the Jason Taylor’s CleanArchitecture .NET solution template available here on github recently updated to support .NET 7. It illustrates well how an ASP.NET Core application...
C# 11 required members
C# 11 proposes the new keyword required that can apply to an instance property or an instance field declaration within a class, a record or a struct. [crayon-6417a54455b9c936842099/] This keyword...
.NET Build Improvement: Stop Wasting Resources
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 .NET build behavior leads to a...
Architecture of a .NET Application: Case Studies
Recently the question Number of projects per solution has been asked on reddit which led to interesting debates. Of course the answer depends largely on the overall size and business...
Visual Studio vs. Jetbrains Rider Performance
I work daily with Visual Studio since 1997 but still use Rider from time to time to keep up with progresses since we plan to also integrate our NDepend extension...
C# 11 static abstract members
C# 11 proposed interface members declared as static abstract. This is useful to handle both: Polymorphism at the type level, for example when abstracting the concept of zero accross numeric...
WPF / Winforms UI Refactoring: A Case Study
WPF and Winforms are still so massively used that Microsoft fully supports those technologies in .NET Core, .NET 5, 6 , 7 and so on. However WPF and Winforms are...
C# async await explained
In 2012, C#5 was released. This version introduced two new keywords async and await. At that time CPU clock speed reached an upper limit imposed by physical laws. But chip...
Improve Visual Studio Build Performance
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 twofold: not only the time taken...
How to collect return values from Parallel.ForEach?
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 improved solution deserved a quick blog...
Modern C# Hello World
With Visual Studio 2022 when you create a new console project based on .NET 6, the Hello World source code generated is now as simple as that: [crayon-6417a54456fcf333985721/] Nice and...
Solution to Visual Studio 2022 messing up Visual Studio 2019
As all .NET developers I am quite excited by Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 going RTM. However I noticed that Visual Studio 2022 RTM install messed up Visual Studio...
Debugging a .NET App on Linux from Windows Visual Studio with WSL
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 has been achieved to isolate code...
Code Testability: A Case Study
[crayon-6417a54457f8a811548595/] This method is untestable because its logic depends on NdpOperatingSystem.Kind which returns an OSPlatform object. Notice the usage of the attribute UncoverableByTest that lets code reviewers and tools like...
3 productivity Resharper features missing in Visual Studio
Resharper is a great Visual Studio productivity extension but on the other hand it slows down significantly the IDE, especially when working with large solutions. However there are real hopes...
Top 10 New .NET 6.0 API
.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 usage likelyhood. Then in the conclusion,...
How to Logically Name Embedded Resources in .csproj?
You can work with .NET for two decades and still discover some useful stuff. One thing that bothered me till now is that an embedded resource name is “the project...
On replacing Thread.Abort() in .NET 6, .NET 5 and .NET Core
Thread.Abort() is not supported in .NET 5 / .NET Core We are actually migrating the NDepend analysis and reporting to .NET 5 and figured out that there is no equivalent...
Visual Studio 2022 64 bits: Elements of history
Finally after all these years of waiting Visual Studio 2022 will run in a 64 bits process on 64 bits machines! As a consequence the effective process address space of the...
Covariance and Contravariance in C# Explained
Introduction Covariance and contravariance allow more flexibility when dealing with C# class hierarchy. This article explains and demonstrates the concepts of Covariance and Contravariance in C# .NET. These concepts will...
6 Reasons Visual Studio Theme Affects Productivity
Themes can be fascinating. Humans are vulnerable to attachments. It could be anything – person, thing, color, food, etc. some people are attracted to unique colors that make them feel...
Visual Studio IntelliCode : AI Assisted Coding
We are all amazed by recent progresses made possible thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI). In 2017 Microsoft announced Visual Studio IntelliCode which used Machine Learning (ML) to predict code completions,...
How we quickly refactored with Resharper more than 23.000 calls to Debug.Assert() into more meaningful assertions
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 assertions calls. Few developers realize that...
The proper usages of the keyword ‘static’ in C#
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 came up after 25 years of...
Using C#9 record and init property in your .NET Framework 4.x, .NET Standard and .NET Core projects
C#9 record and C#9 init property are really nice addition to the language. As explained in C#9 records: immutable classes, both are syntactic sugar that don’t require any change at...
C# Index and Range Operators Explained
C#8 added the index ^ and range .. operators. In this post I am attempting to demystify both in the most comprehensive way. The index operator ^ Let’s start with...
Visualize Code with Software Architecture Diagrams
The source code is the design. This famous motto means that no matter how many diagrams you draw and discuss with your colleagues, the important point is how the existing...
Strategies to Catch Regression Bugs before Production: A Case Study
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 a bug due to a mutable...
C#9 records: immutable classes
Record is a long time awaited feature now proposed by C# 9. With record we have a concise syntax to define immutable types this way: [crayon-6417a54459e76231526853/] Isn’t it beautiful? In...