Cool tool: NDepend

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I just saw a free cool tool, NDepend, which analyzes .NET assemblies and lets you get neet metrics. It also lets you run queries like:

WARN IF Count > 0 IN SELECT TYPES OUT OF NAMESPACES "System.Xml"
WHERE DepthOfIsUsing "System.Xml.XmlChildNodes" == 1
// Restrict the possibility to use the type "System.Xml.XmlChildNodes"
// only to certain namespace.
 

It also has a GUI front end:

The tool was written by Patrick Smacchia, who wrote Practical .NET2 and C#2, which I blogged about earlier.