NDepend, Cyclic Dependencies, and the Shroud of Turing

Patrick Smacchia's NDepend is a brilliant way to get an overview of a .net solution, and then drill in and really understand what's going on.

For example -- let's examine what we learn as we focus in on part of the dependency graph of a large .net solution composed of many components.

I'll choose a region (marked in red below) where there are cyclic dependencies, and analyse it at a progressively greater level of detail...

Effect of Cyclic dependency after zooming 800 times

Effect of Cyclic dependency after zooming 640,000 times:

Effect of Cyclic dependency after zooming 512,000,000 times:

Smoke started coming out of my computer after that, so I ended the magnification there.

Read more from Patrick about componentization analysis with nDepend.

On the topic of Turing -- I'm looking forward to the May release of Charles Petzold's Annotated Turing book.

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