New Tools for Framework Designers Published

Mircea recently published a set of tools we have been using recently in design and Architecture reviews of the .NET Framework.  You can download the three new tools Deps, Layering, and potentialCallers here: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/fxarch   Enjoy!   Deps Deps.exe constructs the dependency diagrams between assemblies, and carries out cycle detection analysis. The command line format is: deps.exe {d|s} <mscorlib_path> <path_list> [:assembly_name] Example: deps s c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\mscorlib.dll c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 :System The tool produces the files: Full.dot. This is a graphviz – formatted file containing the inter-assembly dependencies, based on what...(read more) ...