Do you know any alternative to NDepend for architects? [closed]

Question

do you know any software similar to NDepend? I've got it just recently, and found it very useful. It helped me a lot, but for now i don't have a possibility to buy a professional version.

So, is there any alternative (maybe, open-source)? Preferably, free. But not necessarily. Maybe, with a little bit more fitting price for a single-developer, not a team.

Requirements for this software: Build dependency diagrams Retrieve code metrics Display comments coverage (so far)

Answer 1

Nitriq is a free static code analysis tool for .net. They don't have graphs, but they do have a treemap and instead of having to learn CQL, you use LINQ to do all of your querying. You can find it at www.nitriq.com

Answer 2

Don't think that you are going to find anything as good as nDepend.

But a lot of what you want to do is available within Visual Studio Team Edition

• Visual studio has standard code metrics, we use maintainability index and require that all code under maintainabily index x be checked.
• For comment coverage, we set that xml doc should be generated and that warnings = errors. That way if you are missing a comment you get a compile error.
• Visual Studio also gives you code coverage for your tests

Reflector has a dependency graph addin which is available here:

http://reflectoraddins.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Graph