Monthly Archives: March 2008

    I am impressed by the buzz done around my last post on Number of Types in the .NET Framework. Actually it was just a quick post that I wrote after having read the Brad Abrams Number of Types … Continue reading →

Brad Abrams just did a post on the Number of Types in the .NET Framework. Here are the results I obtained with NDepend (slightly higher):   #assemblies:  119 #namespaces:  933 (here there are some duplication across assemblies, i.e the namespace … Continue reading →

  Mono.Cecil is an open source framework, part of the Mono project, that reads .NET assemblies, but also that writes .NET assemblies. It is developed by Jean Baptiste Evain that now works full-time on the Mono project. System.Reflection is a great … Continue reading →

  On top of things Code Query Language users where asking for, was the condition HasAttribute. I am glad to announce that NDepend 2.7 supports CQL 1.6 that supports this condition for assemblies, types, methods and fields. This single condition … Continue reading →

I’ll give a 1 hour talk about NDepend and the CQL language for the St. Louis C# User Group on  Monday, March 10, 2008.   You can attend it online throught Office Live Meeting. The LiveMeeting link for the general … Continue reading →

The rule consists in minimizing what is called the Nesting Depth. The Nesting Depth is a metric defined on methods that is relative to the maximum depth of the more nested scope in a method body. For example the following … Continue reading →

  “LINQ in Action” (by Fabrice Marguerie, Steve Eichert, Jim Wooley, and Matt Warren (Foreword)) from Manning publishing.       Disclamer: I am a friend of Fabrice Marguerie, one of the co-author, and I helped proof-read some chapters dedicated … Continue reading →