AgileObjects

This is the third in a series of blogs looking at things NDepend told me about a personal project of mine - this time a curious problem with Exception naming.

NDepend

This is the second in a series of blogs about things NDepend told me about a personal project of mine. This time, methods which are apparently never called.

NDepend

The other day I got an email from Patrick Smacchia, generously offering me an NDepend licence on the grounds that if I find it useful I can write about it on my blog. NDepend allows you to write Linq queries against an assembly or a code base to interrogate it for quality issues and see various metrics and reports. I have a personal project underway which I've been working on for some time, so I figured I'd give it a go and see what it can tell me. This is the first of the results.

NDepend

AnemicDomainModel is an anti-pattern I seem to keep coming across. Here's an overview of it, the problems it causes, and some pointers on leaving it behind.

Patterns Domain Driven Design (DDD)

I've recently been working with a number of VB6 systems which use C# .NET components via COM, and wanted to keep the same sort of organisational structures and patterns in the C# part of the application as I would if it was a standard MVC app or WCF service - namely, using Dependency Injection to plug the various C# classes together. This is easier said than done with COM, but here's an approach I've used to achieve it.

C# Patterns Dependency Injection (DI) Unity