As I was running a macro to increase or decrease the text font size (see previous post), I noticed that the macro balloon kept on flashing in the system tray. The reason for this is that in Visual Studio 2008, a balloon tip is shown every time you run a macro, until you click on it 5 times that is. ... [More]

The other day I grew increasingly frustrated with the amount of code I could or rather couldn’t see on my screen at work, even when working in full screen mode. I therefore wanted to write a Visual Studio macro to zoom in and out of the text editor. However while browsing through the sample macros t... [More]

In my previous post, I introduced NDepend and talked about how to get started. Now I’d like to review why I want to use it on my projects. First of all, I really like the analysis reports. Not only do they show you instantly the current state of your application and how healthy it is (or not), but ... [More]

NDepend is a static code analysis tool that offers some really unique features to help you improve the quality of your .NET applications. It can be used for conducting code reviews, highlighting areas that should be refactored, finding out dependencies and visualizing a complex code base. Ultimately... [More]