Using NDepend to help guide Refactoring
In my other blogs entries I mention that I have been looking into building a Team Foundation Server Data Warehouse Adapter. After I got my initial proof of concept version working, I started to extend it to get a list of available builds from TFS and then import the output of Source Monitor – a popular free code metrics tool. Now I must state that I am not a natural .NET coder. My normal day-to-day work is based around the SQL Server technology stack. I do have some .NET coding skills but generally just enough for what is need in and around SQL Server. So I asked my colleague, Howard van Rooijen who is one of our top .NET coders, to have a look at my code and give me some hints. This provide me with a great opportunity to learn from Howard about some more advance Design Patterns, Visual Studio tips and tricks , and how to effectively use some tools I’ve not used before to help me write better code. The first thing Howard did was install the following on my machine: ReSharpe