10 Visual Studio Navigation Productivity Tips
A large code base is a complex asset. Visual Studio is a complex environment. In this context developers spend a significant part of their time searching and navigating across code...
Top 10 Visual Studio Refactoring Tips
With the version 2019 Visual Studio is now mature when it comes to refactoring. This post proposes a tour of the top 10 most used refactoring actions in my opinion....
12 Visual Studio Debugging Productivity Tips
In this post we assume the the reader knows the basics of debugging with Visual Studio: F5 to start running with the debugger F9 set breakpoint on the current line...
10 Visual Studio Ninja Code Editor Productivity Tips
Among the multiple daily development tasks (planning, testing, refactoring, bug fix…) code edition is arguably the most satisfying one. Code edition can be even more satisfying and productive by mastering...
10 Visual Studio Solution Explorer Productivity Tips
The Visual Studio Solution Explorer panel is like home for Visual Studio users. It presents all projects, source files and items thanks to a treeview layout. This panel is quite...
Case Study : Complex UI Testing
In the previous post Case Study: 2 Simple Principles to achieve High Code Maintainability I explained that the principles layered code + high coverage ratio by test are 2 simple...
Case Study: 2 Simple Principles to achieve High Code Maintainability
High Code Maintainability is the key to make both the management and the developers happy: Maintainability lets a product evolves naturally at a sustained pace with controlled cost. Maintainability lets...
Advices to Become a Remote Programmer
With the actual COVID-19 worldwide outbreak many programmers are already forced to work remote, and we can expect that most of us will soon be home. In the IT and...
Don’t rely on someone else to protect your software
This morning I stumbled on this post Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio on the Visual Studio blog. Basically VS will soon be able to not only...
Mythical man month : 10 lines per developer day
The mythical book, Mythical man month quotes that no matter the programming language chosen, a professional developer will write on average 10 lines of code (LoC) day. After 14 years of...
Not planning now to migrate your .NET 4.8 legacy, is certainly a mistake
2020 will see the achievement of the massive remodeling of the .NET platform initiated by Microsoft in November 2014 with the introduction of .NET Core 1, with the promise of...
4 Predictions for the Future of .NET
In May 2019, Microsoft officially announced .NET 5, the future of .NET: it will be based on all the .NET Core work already achieved. Here is the schedule announced: On...
.NET Core 3.0 New APIs
.NET Core 3.0 has just been released, see here the official announcement. In this post we’re going to explain how to list and explore the new APIs introduced since .NET...
Find API Breaking Changes in your .NET Libraries and Frameworks
If you are developing a framework, the last thing you want to happen when releasing a new version of your product is to break the code of your clients because...
Business Complexity vs. Implementation Complexity
It is good software design practice to make sure that methods can be entirely viewed in the code editor that typically shows 30 to 45 lines at a time. The...
Answers to arguments against 100% coverage
I’ve been enthusiast about 100% coverage for more than a decade. The large code base of NDepend we are working on will reach soon 90% overall coverage. Most classes tested...
Static Analysis and Dependency Injection
For quite some years now, we (the NDepend team) got some demand about resolving Dependency Injection, see this page on our User Voices. Lately we’ve been considering such support carefully...
SOLID Design: The Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
After having covered the Open-Close Principle (OCP), the Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP), the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) and the Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) let’s talk about the Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)...
SOLID Design: The Interface Segregation Principle (ISP)
After having covered The Open-Close Principle (OCP), The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) and the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) let’s talk about the Interface Segregation Principle (ISP) which is the I...
Are SOLID principles Cargo Cult?
My last post about SOLID Design: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) generated some discussion on reddit. The discussion originated from a remark considering SOLID principles as a Cargo Cult. Taking...
SOLID Design: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
After having covered The Open-Close Principle (OCP) and The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP) let’s talk about the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) which is the S in the SOLID acronym. The...
SOLID Design: The Open-Close Principle (OCP)
The Open-Close principle (OCP) is the O in the well known SOLID acronym. Bertrand Meyer is generally credited for having originated the term open/closed principle, which appeared in his 1988...
SOLID design: The Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
The Liskov substitution principle is the L in the well known SOLID acronym. The original principle definition is: Methods that use references to base classes must be able to use...
Identify .NET Code Structure Patterns with no Effort
The two pillars of code maintainability are automatic testing and clean code structure. Testing is used to regularly challenge code correctness and detect regression early. Testing can be easily assessed...
Ensure that your classes are declared as sealed when possible
Inheritance is one of the pillar of OOP. However, in the real world, most classes are not designed to be properly inheritable. Properly designing a class to be inheritable is...
The continuous adaptation of Visual Studio extensions
One could think that developing an extension for a two-decades+ product as mature as Visual Studio is headache-less. Not really. Visual Studio is a big big beast used by millions...
Simplifying a Visual Studio extension menu: A Case Study
NDepend version 2019.2.1 has just been released. This new version proposes a simplified menu for the NDepend Visual Studio extension. Before going further I underline that we didn’t get rid...
An in-depth analysis of .NET Core 3.0 support for WPF and Winforms APIs
.NET Core 3.0 will be RTM soon and it supports WPF and Winforms APIs. In my last post I’ve been exploring .NET Core 3.0 new APIs by comparing compiled bits...
Exploring .NET Core 3.0 new API
.NET Core 3.0 is representing a major step for the .NET community. It is interesting to analyze what’s new in the API directly from the compiled bits. In this post...
Advanced Code Search : A Case Study
This morning I stumbled on a complex test to write. The need was to create and show a custom Form (written with Windows Form) that relies on the System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker to do...
