NDepend User Voice
Welcome to the NDepend User Voice page. Let us know what you would like to see in future versions of NDepend. This site is for suggestions and ideas. If you need to report a bug, please send us an email at support@ndepend.com
We look forward to hearing from you!
Thanks – Patrick Smacchia
NDepend Team
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Do not open all kinds of (tool) windows when/after running analysis
I prefer to open/select and postion the windows when and how myself.
I often do not need or want to view the default windows opened and it creates a kind of restlessness in the UI.1 votev2021.2.3 released on 22th November 2021 fixes this
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2 votes
NDepend v2020.1 has just been released and within this version the dependency graph has been completely rebuilt.
https://www.ndepend.com/whatsnewThe new Cluster feature defines groups of namespaces and view dependency graph among them.
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ndepend console should run on .NET Standard for Linux based builders
We are beginning to move towards linux based builders using a .NET Core environment for our .NET Core projects that are not dependent on windows. Because NDepend is a part of our build process, we cannot run any analysis at build times on the projects that have moved in that direction.
Make NDepend.Console .NET Core compliant so that it can run on these Linux builders and restore full analysis capability to out builds.
35 votesNDepend.Console.MultiOS.dll now runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows upon .NET 5 since NDepend v2021.2 https://www.ndepend.com/docs/getting-started-with-ndepend-linux-macos
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Support for Web Sites (WebForms/MVC)
At this moment it is not intuitive and very hard to analyze Web sites with ndepend will be very nice if I could get site analyzed in few button clicks
62 votesActually first-class support for ASP.NET MVC (Core or Fx) occured in v2017.3 and we just noticed that this point was still open in May 2020.
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Ability to export dependency graph as SVG
It will be very nice if there will be ability to export dependency graph as SVG image rather than PNG, it definitelly will be less in size and as a bonus it will be resizeable without loosing quality
42 votesWith NDepend v2020.1 dependency graph has been completely rebuilt and it is now possible to export a graph to SVG format.
https://www.ndepend.com/whatsnew
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NCrunch Code coverage integration.
NCrunch is an absolute must have tool, and it does code coverage very well. i'd like to see a way to get NCrunch Code Coverage data into NDepend.
127 votesNCrunch v4.5 now exports to OpenCover format. Since NDepend can import OpenCover format it means that NDepend can now read NCrunch data :-)
More details here:
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I see you have integration for Reflector, is there any interest in providing a dotPeek integration as well?
Just an idea
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Reference VS solutions from the NDepend Project > Code to Analyze
In addition to references assemblies to analyze from NDepend project, make possible to reference also one or several VS solutions. Assemblies could then be resolved from a defined VS solutions configuration. Also a filter by name system would be handy to filter for example tests assemblies from the VS solutions.
24 votesIt is possible to reference VS soltuion and project from NDepend Project Properties > Code to Analyze panel https://www.ndepend.com/docs/ndepend-assemblies-resolving#resolving-assemblies-from-visual-studio-solutions
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If Statements Counted as Local Variables?
Is NDepend counting if statements as local variables? The number of local variables reported by NDepend is often much higher than what I manually count. In some cases NDepend is reporting 10+ more local variables in addition to the number that are actually declared.
1 votecompleted in v2017.3
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Description and Code for Avoid methods with too many parameters Do Not Match
The description of rule Avoid methods with too many parameters says "This rule matches methods with more than 8 parameters.". The source code finds all methods with greater than 6 parameters.
warnif count > 0 from m in JustMyCode.Methods where
m.NbParameters >= 71 vote -
Improve mapping of NDepend issues to Sonarcube
Currently when using NDepend with SonarCube all critical rules are mapped to blocker issues and all other to major issues.
Since NDepend 2017 has introduced the same granularity of issue severity as SonarCube has it would make sense to map it using this severity rating instead of using the obsolete critical/none critical rules flag of NDepend.
3 votesWe improved a lot the SonarQube integration with NDepend v2017.2 just released, see all details here http://www.ndepend.com/ndepend-v2017#ImprovedSonarQubeIntegration
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View graph from selected method
Drill into a Method to viewing the dependency graph from that point down only.
4 votesWith NDepend v2020.1 dependency graph has been completely rebuilt
and it is now possible to drill into a method graph from its source code definition to get Callers and/or Callees.
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Support for dark theme in Visual Studio
Many developers use dark (or various others) theme in VS. NDepend should support that and style its windows accordingly.
4 votesNDepend v2018.1 now supports dark theme https://www.ndepend.com/whatsnew
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Add importance weighting to rules for more robust "fails"
Instead of a binary critical or not critical flag for rules, it would be nice to have a weighting system for rules (e.g. "each violation of this rule is worth 3, but each violation of this important rule is worth 8").
Then perhaps we could assign a threshold for whether our analysis failed based on point totals, or some percentage formula.1 votewith the technical debt support of v2017 that let’s assign a cost-to-fix and a severity estimation for each issue
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TFS 2015 Support
When and how do you plan to integrate nDepend with vNext build in TFS 2015?
111 votesWe just released NDepend v2017.1 with an advanced extension for TFS 2017 and VSTS. The extension is a management console with Dashboard and actionable data. Have a look here: http://www.ndepend.com/ndepend-v2017#VSTS
This extension is in private beta, General Availability expected by March 2017.
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Suppress items in the analysis
It would be great if you can suppress certain items from the analysis result and add a remark to why you suppressed them.
Some warnings might not be applicable to a certain item in the list, but if you cannot suppress them they will always count the item. Only other option is to fully disable the rule, but this might have unwanted consequences (like no warnings in the past).
A feature like: "Accept this violation" would be highly appreciated.
27 votesSee all details here https://www.ndepend.com/whatsnew#SuppressMessage
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Provide Visual Studio 15 integration
With the second CTP of VS released recently, there should be a NDepend update soon enabling NDepend in VS '15.
10 votesWe just released NDepend v6 that now support Visual Studio 2015 (current RC and upcoming RTM).
http://www.ndepend.com/ndepend-v6XXNDepend v6 also comes with many VS integration enhancements.
You can download NDepend v6 to try it.
Your feedback at support@ndepend.com will be more than welcome.
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Provide sample project which reflects NDepend abilities for newbies
Provide sample project which reflects NDepend abilities for newbies
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Exclude compiler generated code by default
Exclude all compiler generated code from all graphs and queries by default. This is very cumbersome when working with Task, async and await for .Net 4.5+
44 votesWe just released NDepend v6 that now is able to merge compiler generated code into app code, in a smart way that will preserve code metrics, dependencies, difff…
http://www.ndepend.com/ndepend-v6You can download v6 Release Candidate 1 to try it.
Your feedback at support@ndepend.com will be more than welcome.
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Support OpenCover xml coverage files
Support OpenCover XML Files instead of asking to convert those files to dotcover or NCover formats.
81 votesNDepend v2019.1 now support completely OpenCover coverage file format, see more here https://www.ndepend.com/whatsnew#OpenCover
and here https://www.ndepend.com/docs/code-coverage#OpenCoverFile
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