Monthly Archives: October 2012

Two Screencasts on How to Demystify Spaghetti Code

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Patrick Smacchia

In my consultant career, no matter the kind of company I visited, from the tiny startup to the largest fortune 500 corporation, they all have in common to be entangled in spaghetti. Spaghetti means poorly structured code. Spaghetti means high maintenance and … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET assemblies, .NET Framework, .NET Fx, Acyclic componentization, Code Dependency, Component, CQLinq, Cycle, DAG, Dependencies, Dependency Cycle, Dependency Graph, Dependency Matrix, graph of callers, Graph of Dependencies, Indirect Dependency, Pattern, Patterns | 1 Comment

Validating Architecture through LINQ Query

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Patrick Smacchia

These days we are restructuring the NDepend code base to make it more suited to welcome future features implementation. Here is below the new architecture of the NDepend.UI assembly, made of around 50.000 lines of code, shown through a Dependency Structure … Continue reading →

Posted in C#, Code Dependency, Code Query, Code Rule, code structure, Code visualization, CQLinq, Dependency Matrix, Layer, LINQ, namespace, namespaces, NDepend, Pattern, Patterns, Performance | 2 Comments

Screencast: Inspecting Code Quality and Code Complexity

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Patrick Smacchia

Recently I had a chance to record a screencast on Inspecting Code Quality and Code Complexity with Filip Ekberg. In this half-hour video we inspect the NUnit v2.5.8 code base quality and complexity with NDepend v4.0: We first use the popular … Continue reading →

Posted in CC, Code Diff, Code metrics, Code Rule, Cyclomatic complexity | 1 Comment

Beware mixing List.Sort() and Thread.Abort()

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Patrick Smacchia

After more than a decade of full-time development with .NET, I still discover surprising unfixed bugs in the heart of the framework. Today, while I was smoke-testing new stuff in the NDepend UI, I stumbled on an InvalidOperationException thrown by a … Continue reading →

Posted in .NET Framework, .NET Fx, C#, Code Query, Code Rule, CQLinq | 6 Comments