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In keeping with my ongoing series of .NET development practices, I have written an introductory article on unit testing code with NUnit.

At this point, the automated build is already doing a form of code analysis with FxCop. It’s time to add another analysis tool into the mix: NDepend. This article will describe NDepend’s purpose, usage, and compare and contrast it with FxCop.

I recently had the experience, for the first time, of attending a .NET Code Camp in Victoria.

Now that NAnt has been set up to automate the project build process, the possibility exists to add additional tasks to the build such as code analysis. In this article I’ll describe one such task, checking for best practices, using FxCop.

Building a .NET project can be a multi-step process. There’s compilation, unit testing, code analysis, documentation…It goes on and on. Ordinarily, this could be done manually, one step at a time, but it would get tedious very quickly. Well, it so happens there is a useful tool called NAnt that can automate this process, replacing multiple actions with just one. Read on to find out how.

There are numerous schools of thought on how a Subversion repository can be structured. There seems to be no right or wrong way to do it, and it is somewhat dependent on the nature of the project(s) in the repository, and on the technologies being used. I’m going to show how I generally structure my project repositories.

I recently wrote about building a simple data abstraction layer in .NET. I did much reading on the web before I developed the given code, and am now going to share some links to some of the more useful sites I found.

Data abstraction is a useful device through which using a database in code is made simpler. I’ll share some code I’ve been using in an ASP.NET project, which makes using databases a lot less tedious. The code is also usable in any other project using .NET, not just web projects.