A long while ago I got a licence for NDepend ... I had used it previously but only on the trial version, where it had proved very useful in giving me a some pretty graphs that made sense to managment when my words did not.

I haven't actually got around to using it until this morning, when I thought I would run it over our current project to see where we were at. There isn't a hell of a lot of code in the project, so I wasn't expecting too many surprises - and largely I didn't receive many.

I was pleased to see our assembly dependencies were the right way around, and very pleased to see they were very near the centre line on the "Abstractness vs Instability" chart.

The only very mild surprise was to see this flagged up in multiple CQL checks:

RegisterforUpdates(String, String, String, String, String, String, String, String, String, String, String, String, String, String, String, String, String)

Obviously there is something wrong here ... and a quick word with the developer who wrote this established that he didn't know about the Binding Helpers in ASP.NET MVC so had passed every form field back into the controller via the parameter list. A quick hyperlink to him of Rob Conery's excellent tutorials on ASP.NET MVC and we have a much nicer method on the controller.

One small win for NDepend ... I look forward to many more as time goes on!