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NDepend: Manage your .NET Code

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Many of will like myself will code once and a while. As a BizTalk professional it is inevitable that you will code for instance a pipeline component, a helper class, functoid, or other custom code to support your solution or test. There are many tools available to make you more productive and provide you ability to create robust and high quality code. Either you find open source tools through Codeplex, utilities/tools through Microsoft or commercial ones. One of the tools I got acquinted with is NDepend . It is a Visual Studio tool to manage complex .NET code and achieve high Code Quality. With NDepend , software quality can be measured using Code Metrics, visualized using Graphs and Treemaps, and enforced using standard and custom Rules. I received a copy of this tool through Patrick Smacchia (owner of NDepend ) to review. Installation of the tool is pretty straight forward. Once installed on your machine by unpacking it in a file folder you can start using either NDepend.Power

BizTalk Community Series: Introducing Rob Fox

It’s spring time and the sun is shining. BizTalk Server has been released and a lot of events are organized or are about to take place; launch parties, user group meeting and large events like TechEd’s. The BizTalk community is vibrant. A lot of us MVP’s will be on stage coming weeks at these different events. We are joined by people from the community. One of them is Rob Fox . Today’s story is on him. Rob , living together in the south of The Netherlands with his lovely girlfriend Marjolein, a dog and two cats. He works as a BizTalk Consultant for QNH and if he has any time left he likes to build apps for the Windows (Phone) environment. “The last one is just for fun. Making money out of it is pretty difficult if you are not busy with it full time.”  Besides spending time with Marjolein, walking the dog, building an app or the occasional website, Rob also does (Front-of-House) sound and tour management for one of Holland's bigger metal bands - Carach Angren . “It&

BizTalk Administration Story Complete

With the latest release of a BizTalk administration white paper by Tord G. Nordahl the story of running and maintaining BizTalk is complete. Through BizTalk360 site you can obtain the white paper: Proactively keep an eye on health of your Microsoft BizTalk Server Environments . This paper will you learn how to pro-actively avoid some of the scenarios like unplanned downtime, data loss or crippled BizTalk environments. Then there is of course another white paper which you can download from BizTalk360 site called: BizTalk Monitoring Solutions white paper by Kent Weare . With this paper you can learn the differences and similarities between two of best BizTalk monitoring tools available today: System Center Operation Manager and BizTalk360 . That is not all as Jeroen Hendriks owner of BizTalkAdminsblogging has wrote a paper called: How to Properly Administer and Operate a BizTalk Server Infrastructure . And finally there is a white paper created by myself and released last Decem