What is Microsoft waiting for providing a decent path API?

published 9 days, 12 hours ago, submitted by johnsheehan 9 days, 15 hours ago

codebetter.com — I was recently browsing the code source of Managed Extensibility Framework and realized that this future part of .NET 4, full of tricky and advanced ideas, was naively relying on strings to describe files and directories paths. It seems that the version 4 of .NET will miss the need for a descent path API. There is the class System.IO.Path but it is feature limited, full of flaws and pitfalls (to not say bugs) and it fosters users to encode their paths into raw strings. It seems to me that using strings to encode paths is as primitive as using String.IndexOf("<tag>") to parse some XML. read more...

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NDepend the massive code analysis tool for every developer

submitted by mosessaur 1 month, 14 days ago

mosesofegypt.net — Simple Review about the massive code analysis tool NDepend read more...

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NDepend update brings 64 bit compatibility

submitted by aloker 3 months, 15 days ago

blog.andreloker.de — The current version of NDepend added support for dependency graphs under 64 bit operating systems. If you remember, this was one of the few points of criticism I mentioned in my little review on NDepend. Visual NDepend can now visualize the dependencies between types, namespaces and members read more...

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.Net 3.5 Changes as Seen from NDepends...

codebetter.com — Really interesting breakdown of the new 3.5 sp release. read more...

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Detailed code metrics with NDepend

blog.maartenballiauw.be — A while ago, I blogged about code performance analysis in Visual Studio 2008. Using profiling and hot path tracking, I measured code performance and was able to react to that. Last week, Patrick Smacchia contacted me asking if I wanted to test his project NDepend. He promised me NDepend would provide more insight in my applications. Let's test that! read more...

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