NDepend version 6.2 has just been released. We have addressed over 20 bug fixes, including a blocker one for Visual Studio 2015 update 1 Git Controls.

More specifically the new Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 Git controls in the Visual Studio status bar were interacting with the NDepend Visual Studio extension status bar control. As a consequence this was provoking VS UI freezing. That is fortunate that the Visual Studio team warned partners (VSIP) a few weeks ago that they were adding controls to the status bar. The issue was coming from a synchronous usage of the WPF dispatcher to implement the NDepend progress & status circle. Invoking the dispatcher asynchronously fixed the issue.

We also stumbled on an unusual issue due to an unfixed Windows bug. When working with DataGridView with many rows (like 1000+) we can face an unmanaged StackOverflowException that crashes the process. The Windows bug is explained here http://stackoverflow.com/a/14716720/27194 and as far as we know it is not fixed. The problem occurs only when the Windows process TabTip.exe runs (“Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service“) and the stackoverflow link explains that the only way to prevent it is to disable this touch keyboard service. We’re going the hard way and actually when NDepend starts, it now tries to kill this process. Most of the time it’ll work, even if the Windows user is not administrator. If you get any inconvenience with this rough fix, please let us know.

Apart these two fixes, many other bugs were fixed and some improvements were added (see the complete list here). Bugs fixed also includes some incorrect results that were happening because the way Roslyn emits IL has significantly changed in some situations, and NDepend relies a lot on IL code analysis.

Enjoy!

Patrick Smacchia

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My dad being an early programmer in the 70's, I have been fortunate to switch from playing with Lego, to program my own micro-games, when I was still a kid. Since then I never stop programming.

I graduated in Mathematics and Software engineering. After a decade of C++ programming and consultancy, I got interested in the brand new .NET platform in 2002. I had the chance to write the best-seller book (in French) on .NET and C#, published by O'Reilly and also did manage some academic and professional courses on the platform and C#.

Over my consulting years I built an expertise about the architecture, the evolution and the maintenance challenges of large & complex real-world applications. It seemed like the spaghetti & entangled monolithic legacy concerned every sufficiently large team. As a consequence, I got interested in static code analysis and started the project NDepend in 2004.

Nowadays NDepend is a full-fledged Independent Software Vendor (ISV). With more than 12.000 client companies, including many of the Fortune 500 ones, NDepend offers deeper insight and full control on their application to a wide range of professional users around the world.

I live with my wife and our twin kids Léna and Paul in the beautiful island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.