10 Visual Studio Ninja Code Editor Productivity Tips
June 24, 2020 3 minutes read Among the multiple daily development tasks (planning, testing, refactoring, bug fix…) code edition is arguably the most satisfying one. Code edition can be even...
10 Visual Studio Solution Explorer Productivity Tips
June 17, 2020 5 minutes read The Visual Studio Solution Explorer panel is like home for Visual Studio users. It presents all projects, source files and items thanks to a...
Case Study : Complex UI Testing
April 29, 2020 6 minutes read In the previous post Case Study: 2 Simple Principles to achieve High Code Maintainability I explained that the principles layered code + high coverage...
Advices to Become a Remote Programmer
March 10, 2020 6 minutes read 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...
Don’t rely on someone else to protect your software
February 20, 2020 4 minutes read This morning I stumbled on this post Decompilation of C# code made easy with Visual Studio on the Visual Studio blog. Basically VS will...
Mythical man month : 10 lines per developer day
February 10, 2020 4 minutes read 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...
Not planning now to migrate your .NET 4.8 legacy, is certainly a mistake
January 16, 2020 4 minutes read 2020 will see the achievement of the massive remodeling of the .NET platform initiated by Microsoft in November 2014 with the introduction of .NET...
4 Predictions for the Future of .NET
October 8, 2019 6 minutes read In May 2019, Microsoft officially announced .NET 5, the future of .NET: it will be based on all the .NET Core work already achieved....
.NET Core 3.0 New APIs
September 25, 2019 2 minutes read .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...
Find API Breaking Changes in your .NET Libraries and Frameworks
September 24, 2019 3 minutes read If you are developing a framework, the last thing you want to happen when releasing a new version of your product is to break...
Business Complexity vs. Implementation Complexity
September 19, 2019 6 minutes read It is good software design practice to make sure that methods can be entirely viewed in the code editor that typically shows 30 to...
Answers to arguments against 100% coverage
September 10, 2019 7 minutes read 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...
Static Analysis and Dependency Injection
September 3, 2019 4 minutes read For quite some years now, we (the NDepend team) got some demand about resolving Dependency Injection, see this page on our User Voices. Lately...
Are SOLID principles Cargo Cult?
August 13, 2019 6 minutes read My last post about SOLID Design: The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) generated some discussion on reddit. The discussion originated from a remark considering SOLID...
Identify .NET Code Structure Patterns with no Effort
July 16, 2019 7 minutes read The two pillars of code maintainability are automatic testing and clean code structure. Testing is used to regularly challenge code correctness and detect regression...
Ensure that your classes are declared as sealed when possible
July 10, 2019 3 minutes read Inheritance is one of the pillar of OOP. However, in the real world, most classes are not designed to be properly inheritable. Properly designing...
The continuous adaptation of Visual Studio extensions
July 4, 2019 5 minutes read 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...
Simplifying a Visual Studio extension menu: A Case Study
April 2, 2019 4 minutes read 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...
An in-depth analysis of .NET Core 3.0 support for WPF and Winforms APIs
February 28, 2019 5 minutes read .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...
Exploring .NET Core 3.0 new API
February 21, 2019 9 minutes read .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...
Advanced Code Search : A Case Study
January 16, 2019 3 minutes read This morning I stumbled on a complex test to write. The need was to create and show a custom Form (written with Windows Form)...
Service Oriented Architecture: A Dead Simple Explanation
January 8, 2019 1 minutes read Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has been with us for a long time. The term first appeared in 1998, and since then it’s grown in popularity....
C# Features: An Exhaustive List of the Best Ones
December 18, 2018 1 minutes read The first post I wrote for the NDepend blog was about C# 8.0 features. That post inspired a sequel, followed by the series’ final...
Coupling in Programming: What This Means and How Not to Get Burned
December 4, 2018 1 minutes read What is coupling in programming? Is it something we want to avoid when we design and write code? If so, why? And more importantly,...
Mentoring Software Developers as an Architect
November 27, 2018 1 minutes read A while back we discussed the unique career path architects have to travel. We wrote that article for developers who want to advance their...
Self Documenting Code vs. Comments? Turns Out It’s Both or Neither
November 20, 2018 1 minutes read It’s been about a month since my last research post, and I’ve been musing about the next topic. What should it be? Well, I’ve...
Should Architects Write Code? You Bet They Should!
October 30, 2018 1 minutes read There’s a common misconception that’s permeated our profession: Architects don’t need to write code to do their jobs. Now, this may seem like a...
When Is It Okay to Use a C# Partial Class?
October 16, 2018 1 minutes read Today’s post attempts to answer a very simple and straightforward question: “When is it OK to use a C# partial class?” And the answer as...
Extension Methods and the Decline of Traditional OOP
October 9, 2018 1 minutes read A bunch of years ago, I wrote a post on my own personal blog titled, “Why I Don’t Like C# Extension Methods.” Over the...
Shotgun Surgery: What It Is and How to Stop It
October 2, 2018 1 minutes read I really love the name “shotgun surgery” for describing a code smell. It’s sort of an interesting mix of aggressive and comical, and so...