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Taking a look at the new NDepend version 5

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Hello and Happy New Year 2014.   It’s been an eventful year for me; I became an independent contractor in central London and it’s been going well.   I’ve been acting as solution architect and lead developer on a greenfield project for a financial services client, building an application with a variety of technologies including MVC 4 / JavaScript / jQuery with a bit of Knockout, SQL Server 2012, and an ETL solution using SSIS 2012.   It’s coming along nicely, and I’ve really been enjoying this challenge and opportunity. Incidentally toward the end of 2013 I was contacted by C# MVP Patrick Smacchia; I had previously blogged about his product NDepend , and he’s now asked me to take a look at the new version 5 .   Full disclosure:   I have not received any compensation for this, but he did send me a professional licence for evaluation.   I agreed to take a look at it for a number of reasons of my own.   Having looked at it previously, I think it’s just interesting what it te