For the last few months I've had the pleasure of working with NDepend version 3. Most of my development at home is on linux these days, so I haven't used it as much as I'd like, but I have been using it to poke around in various codebases and see what the new Visual Studio integration is all about. The last version integrated with Visual Studio, technically speaking, but it didn't seem nearly as thorough as what I've seen in version 3. I suspect the improved extensibility model in VS 2010 has a lot to do with this, but can't confirm (I haven't tried it w...

I went to a local MS launch event for Visual Studio today, mainly to see what was new with Team Foundation Server, but what really impressed me was some of the new architecture tools they've added. I admittedly haven't read too much about this before today (my needs have been well-served by NDepend) but I'm happy to see some improved architecture tools find their way into Visual Studio. Looking at the version comparison chart, it appears this is only available in ...

I just finished another course at school that involved studying an open-source application. I've gotten tired of studying Java and using Java tools, so I decided to try studying a .net project. Luckily I stumbled upon NDepend which is the most fully featured tool for studying .net code that I've seen to date.

In the past when I needed to do some kind of code analysis (usually generating DSM's and maybe taking a brief look at some metrics), Lutz Roeder's (I mean red-gate's) Reflector...