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Analysis of source code has become quite a “business” topic in the last few years. Due to that a lot of software tools have been released to help the developer to analyse the source code. In the Delphi World there is the well-known product called Code Healer by Sock Software (http://www.socksoftware.com/codehealer.php). However, a product called NDepend has come to my attention which offers a way to really dive into your code!

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For the first time, there will be two EKONs in Germany in one year. EKON Spring will be next week in Frankfurt. “The Road To Delphi” is the tagline of the conference and I am in the process of putting the finishing touches to my talks. I will be talking about Webservices and ECO in the VCL world. Two exciting topics. I am looking forward to it as I will Continue reading

The ECO team released a new beta version of ECO which will install into VS 2005, 2008 and RAD Studio 2007. Interestingly, there seem to be some nice new wizard features being developed right now. As you can see in the figure below, you can select the server-type you want to include into your project group/solution.

There are templates for a server that is run in a console window, a Continue reading

Borland’s IDE have been a part of my life since I am 9 years old. I got used to the short-cuts and thus know the IDE by heart. In school we had to look at different versions of VB, but I never really got used to the different approach to do things and I also got confused as Microsoft used different short-cuts. Now with ECO IV for VS being in Continue reading

After posting my last blog entry regarding LINQ, Jonas Högström pinged me on Skype. He asked me, why I had used Count() instead of Count(). As IEnumerable<> already was only carrying string objects, there was no need to do that. I agreed, but said that I fell into a trap with Intellisense. Visual Studio makes it so easy to enter code that you sometimes make your code too verbose. However