Category Archives: Partitioning

A typical effect of setting CopyLocal = true

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Patrick Smacchia

If you read me in the past, you certainly know that I have a problem about the Visual Studio default option that set CopyLocal = true in project references assemblies. I mean this option: I’ve already explained the problem in … Continue reading →

Also posted in Acyclic componentization, Code Dependency, code structure, Code visualization, CopyLocal syndrome, Dependency Cycle, Dependency Graph, Dependency Matrix, graph, Graph of Dependencies, Lines of Code, Maintainability, Visual Studio, VS, VStudio | 23 Comments

NDepending Resharper

Posted on December 1, 2009 by Patrick Smacchia

Andrew Kazyrevich has written an original blog post about NDepending Resharper. Or more precisely analyzing the code base and API of Resharper  with NDepend and comparing the evolution between Resharper v4.5 and v5.0. You’ll see some quantitative information include the … Continue reading →

Also posted in Lines of Code, LoC, MEF, NDepend, optimization, R#, Resharper | 1 Comment

Re-factoring, Re-Structuring and the cost of Levelizing

Posted on February 15, 2009 by Patrick Smacchia

I think there is a clear distinction between re-structuring and re-factoring code. This is because of the nature of the OOP code which is made of 2 distinct artifacts: methods’ bodies and fields on one hand, and methods’ declarations, types’ declarations, namespaces’ declarations on the … Continue reading →

Also posted in .NET assemblies, Acyclic componentization, Afferent Coupling, Graph of Dependencies, Layer, Layering, Maintainability, re-engineering | 8 Comments

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 →

Also posted in .NET assemblies, C#, Code, Code Coverage, code organization, CopyLocal syndrome | 10 Comments