NDepend 2.0 - Beast, not Beauty

NDepend 2.0 just came out, and it *looks* to be a really awesome tool for understanding your's architecture and status, especially dependencies between components, in a visual way.

But from the demos on the site, it really does feel like you'd need to read a whole book about using it before even starting to use it for the simplest of tasks.

still, I'm pretty sure many of you will find lots of use for this, as you'll find lots of time to explore this beast of a program, which can save lots of headaches and time when it's time for that "rewrite" you were thinking of, or you want to analyze a large piece of legacy code...

My title is just me trying to be clever - it's a beast, and what you may find inside may not be pretty, but it is reality..

Published Monday, February 05, 2007 5:45 PM by RoyOsherove
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 1:54 PM by Steven

# re: NDepend 2.0 - Beast, not Beauty

I actually found NDepend rather easy to use. However, I must say the demo's don't do the product much good. They are hard to follow. But I really really like the new multilevel call matrices user interface that's now in NDepend.

Saturday, May 05, 2007 4:21 PM by Colin Jack

# re: NDepend 2.0 - Beast, not Beauty

I'd recommend people look at Robert Martin's book if they're interested in the package metrics part of NDepend (one of the pieces I found most useful):

http://www.amazon.com/Principles-Patterns-Practices-Robert-Martin/dp/0131857258/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-5631402-2469769?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1178396424&sr=8-2

He explains in depth how the metrics (which I believe he came up with) work.