Another Reason to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008

November 21st, 2007

I cannot believe I neglected to mention the new code metrics features in Visual Studio 2008 along with previous list of worthwhile features. Code metrics will scan your project and show you a Maintainability Index at the class and method level based on Cyclomatic Complexity, Depth of Inheritance, Lines of Code and other values. Knowing how your code looks from this perspective should help you in refactoring it into a more simple form that should save you many headaches in the future. The details are presented to you with an easy to read grid that is ideal for quick code reviews.

You can read more at the Visual Studio Code Analysis Blog.

Code Metrics in Visual Studio 2008

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3 Responses to “Another Reason to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008”

  1. J. Schultz Says:
    November 21st, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    Very cool!

  2. Grenade Says:
    November 22nd, 2007 at 2:55 am

    My favourite feature has still got to be the xaml zoom... :)

  3. Brennan’s Blog » Blog Archive » Holiday Installfest Recap Says:
    February 1st, 2008 at 1:44 am

    [...] On Tuesday we had our local installfest holiday part of the new release of Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5. This was a big one. I feel like I have been hearing about multi-targeting and LINQ for years now. A few weeks back I wrote a summary of my favorite new features. In that post I forgot to mention the new code metrics, so I followed up with a summary of that great set of features. [...]

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