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copied!<p>To browse .NET code dependencies, you can use the capabilities of the tool NDepend. The tool proposes:</p> <ul> <li>a <a href="http://www.ndepend.com/docs/visual-studio-dependency-graph" rel="nofollow noreferrer">dependency graph</a> </li> <li>a <a href="http://www.ndepend.com/docs/dependency-structure-matrix-dsm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">dependency matrix</a>,</li> <li>and also some <a href="http://www.ndepend.com/docs/cqlinq-features#Dependencies" rel="nofollow noreferrer">C# LINQ queries</a> can be edited (or generated) to browse dependencies. </li> </ul> <p>For example such query can look like:</p> <pre><code>from m in Methods let depth = m.DepthOfIsUsing("NHibernate.NHibernateUtil.Entity(Type)") where depth >= 0 && m.IsUsing("System.IDisposable") orderby depth select new { m, depth } </code></pre> <p>And its result looks like: (notice the code metric <strong>depth</strong>, 1 is for direct callers, 2 for callers of direct callers...) (notice also the Export to Graph button to export the query result to a <a href="http://www.ndepend.com/docs/visual-studio-dependency-graph#Call" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Call Graph</a>)</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/oAwfm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/oAwfm.png" alt="NDepend dependencies browsing through C# LINQ query"></a></p> <p>The dependency graph looks like:</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lMZ4.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8lMZ4.jpg" alt="NDepend Dependency Graph"></a></p> <p>The dependency matrix looks like:</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/uC54j.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/uC54j.png" alt="NDepend Dependency Matrix"></a></p> <p>The dependency matrix is <em>de-facto</em> less intuitive than the graph, but it is more suited to browse complex sections of code like:</p> <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nUy4Z.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/nUy4Z.jpg" alt="NDepend Matrix vs Graph"></a></p> <p><em>Disclaimer: I work for NDepend</em></p>

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