Keyvan Nayyeri

After a long while, I published something new on DotNetSlackers and it's a review of NDepend tool.

NDepend is a code analysis tool written for .NET developers as a standalone application that can be integrated with Visual Studio and Reflector and lets you easily analyze your code and explore various metrics. In this review, you'll read about this product and an overview of its major features.

Probably you can remember that I wrote about the NDepend tool a few weeks ago and promised to write this review on DotNetSlackers But I was busy and this review delayed for a short while and it's now finally published. There was a positive point in this delay and it's the release of NDepend 2.6 which supports Visual Studio 2008 so I could write the review for the latest version.

NDepend is a code analysis tool for .NET developers and actually is the best and the unique one. You can use it for code analysis and calculating code metrics easily. You can also get the best from this tool by using it in conjunction with FxCop tool.

My review walks through the major features of the NDepend based on some examples of open source BlogML library for .NET.

NDepend is a great tool and one of tools that really worth it! I've been using it for 1.5 months and so far like its features very much.

Recently I also announced the partnership between NDepend and BlogML and I'm going to apply NDepend for future versions of BlogML in order to improve our design and code.

This review was also a return for me to DotNetSlackers. You may know that I was one of a few authors who joined to DotNetSlackers at first stages and I wrote two articles about Writing a Custom Web Event Provider for ASP.NET 2.0 and SqlBulkCopy in ADO.NET 2.0. DotNetSlackers has grown very well and has become very active and I hope that I can keep writing new articles on DotNetSlackers after this.