You will have a difficult, if not impossible, time finding developers more interested in code quality and code metrics than Patrick Smacchia.
Patrick is the developer of the ever-so-popular NDepend that helps developers understand and measure the quality of their .NET Applications through various code metrics and dependency graphs. The beauty of NDepend is the ability to query information about your application using the Code Query Language ( CQL ), which feels like LINQ or any other query language. With NDepend v3 you get Visual Studio 2010 support as well as a number of new features.
If you are interested in better understanding the quality and behavior of your .NET Application, I highly recommend you visit the NDepend Website and check out the features as well as download the trial. Then, I would go to Patrick's blog where he has several examples of how to use NDepend to analyze various frameworks and applications. If you are responsible for the overall quality of your applications ( and who isn't ), I am not sure how you can achieve the role without a tool like NDepend.
I demonstrated NDepend at the Tampa ASP.NET MVC Developer Group and will probably do the same at an upcoming Sarasota Web Developer Group. If you are new to NDepend and measuring code quality, it is worth your time to look at NDepend.
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David Hayden