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What is Microsoft waiting for providing a decent path API?

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:31:13 GMT

I was recently browsing the code source of Managed Extensibility Framework and realized that this future part of .NET 4, full of tricky and advanced ideas, was naively relying on strings to describe files and directories paths. It seems that the version 4 of .NET will miss the need for a descent path API. There is the class System.IO.Path but it is feature limited, full of flaws and pitfalls (to not say bugs) and it fosters users to encode their paths into raw strings. It seems to me that using strings to encode paths is as primitive as using String.IndexOf("<tag>") to parse some XML.

Advices on partitioning code through .NET assemblies

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:31:12 GMT

There're many reason why you should keep the number of your .NET assemblies to the strict minimum. Learn them here.

NDepend the massive code analysis tool for every developer

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:06:28 GMT

Simple Review about the massive code analysis tool NDepend

Getting rid of spaghetti code in the real-world: a Case Study

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:46:10 GMT

A case study of cleaning up entangled code by reducing dependencies. Tips of how to avoid more entangled code to be added. Plugs NCover.

NDepend update brings 64 bit compatibility

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:06:09 GMT

The current version of NDepend added support for dependency graphs under 64 bit operating systems. If you remember, this was one of the few points of criticism I mentioned in my little review on NDepend. Visual NDepend can now visualize the dependencies between types, namespaces and members

NDepend 2.10 Released - Interactive Code Dependencies Graph

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:16:02 GMT

This is indistinguishable from magic!

.Net 3.5 Changes as Seen from NDepends...

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:01:02 GMT

Really interesting breakdown of the new 3.5 sp release.

How to use NDepend to improve code quality

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:16:09 GMT

Code quality is an important aspect of every software development project - discover how NDepend can aid in giving you a richer and more meaningful understanding of the quality of your code as well as helping to identify areas you could improve. This post is a high level overview of what you can achieve with NDepend.

Detailed code metrics with NDepend

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:01:12 GMT

A while ago, I blogged about code performance analysis in Visual Studio 2008. Using profiling and hot path tracking, I measured code performance and was able to react to that. Last week, Patrick Smacchia contacted me asking if I wanted to test his project NDepend. He promised me NDepend would provide more insight in my applications. Let's test that!