Monthly Archives: January 2009

NDepend Analysis Inputs

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Patrick Smacchia

  I would like here to clarify from where NDepend analysis takes its inputs. Indeed, it might sounds mysterious how NDepend can infer comment metrics from assemblies for example. The trick is that the analysis is fetching data from 4 … Continue reading →

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Mono vs. .NET Framework: Public API Compatibility

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Patrick Smacchia

    In this post, I use the NDepend assembly comparison feature to assess the public API compatibility between Mono 2.0 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.   The assemblies considered are: mscorlib,     System,     System.Core,     System.Messaging,     System.Runtime.Remoting,     System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Soap,     System.Security,     System.ServiceProcess,     … Continue reading →

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Lessons learned from the NUnit code base

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Patrick Smacchia

I recently analyzed NUnit v2.4.8 with NDepend. The first impression is that developers behind NUnit know their job and did an excellent work. This positive feedback comes from many details, the fact that you can seamlessly open the VisualStudio solution and compile everything immediately, the amount of … Continue reading →

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Using NDepend on large project, a success story

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Patrick Smacchia

  Sébastien Andreo just wrote a blog post explaining how using some NDepend features made the life of its team easier. Sébastien is a software architect at Siemens Healthcare in Germany and its team uses NDepend for over 18 months. … Continue reading →

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