Source code analysis tools for C#

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What static analysis tools are available for C#?

Guys, I'm looking for an open source or free source code analysis tool for C#. The tool should be able to generate metrics from the source code such as cyclomatic complexity, number of lines, number of commented lines, SEI maintainability etc. Does anyone know of any such tool?

See the answers here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38635/what-static-analysis-tools-are-available-for-c Some static analysis tools can do deadlock detection. Also, try [FxCop](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=917023f6-d5b7-41bb-bbc0-411a7d66cf3c) from Microsoft. — David d C e Freitas, Jul 15 '11 at 10:53

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 23 '08 at 20:36

NDepend will give you a vast number of stats for your code:

http://codebetter.com/blogs/patricksmacchia/archive/2008/11/25/composing-code-metrics-values.aspx

There is a free 'Trial' version which contains fewer features than the Professional product, but which is free to use for Open Source and Academic development. The Trial version on the download page gets updated with a new version before the previous one runs out:

http://www.ndepend.com/NDependDownload.aspx

score 6 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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NDepend isn't free for non-academic or open-source software use, but it is awesome, and will give you those metrics (and many others, using its built-in Code Query Language).

This question is more or less a dupe of this one: Calculate code metrics, and you'll find an entire series of good suggestions there.

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answered Dec 23 '08 at 20:32

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NDepend does not work at source code level. but at intermediate language level. – jaircazarin-old-account Dec 23 '08 at 21:27
IIRC, last time I checked, NDepend works at the source code level for C#, but not VB.NET (IL only) – Jeremy Frey Dec 23 '08 at 22:59
NDepend works at IL code, source code, PDB and code coverage level the idea is to merge as much data as possible from various sources http://www.ndepend.com/docs/ndepend-analysis-inputs-explanation – Patrick from NDepend team Jun 12 '17 at 15:12
We are always glad to sponsor academics and OSS project, just come back to us – Patrick from NDepend team Jun 12 '17 at 15:12

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 23 '08 at 20:37

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Gendarme is totally open source and free. It's a subproject under mono. You can run the tools in three ways: wizard, console, NAnt. It will generate a html report which summarize all the violated rules. Worthy have a look.

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 09 '09 at 05:33

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SourceMonitor is a free C# metrics tool, it's fairly old but it could still be useful.

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 23 '08 at 20:28

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There are many plugins for reflector (which is also free):

Reflector Add-Ins

I believe the CodeMetrics plugin does what you need

answered Dec 23 '08 at 20:28

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I don't use VS 2008 at work, and CodeMetrics worked really fine for me. Thanks! – Dec 24 '08 at 03:54
Glad it worked out. I'd echo everyone's sentiment that you should check out NDepend if you get a chance, it is great! – AlexCuse Dec 24 '08 at 14:24

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 30 '08 at 11:17

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Axivion Bauhaus Suite is free for academic use but not for commercial use.

It includes:

Software Architecture visualization
Software Architecture rule checking
Interface analysis
Cycle detection
Clone (copy) detection
Dead code detection
Detection of code style violations
A full set of predefined software metrics
The ability to add your own metrics and analyses...

Supports C / C++, C#, Java on various platforms

answered Dec 30 '08 at 11:17

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Link is broken. – Thomas Weller Sep 03 '16 at 14:43

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Dec 23 '08 at 20:40

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Visual Studio's Code Metrics

answered Dec 23 '08 at 20:40

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And the latest and greatest is [here](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=edd1dfb0-b9fe-4e90-b6a6-5ed6f6f6e615) – Peter K. May 18 '11 at 20:45
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both links are dead! – peval27 May 03 '17 at 10:36
[Here's the documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/code-quality/code-metrics-values?view=vs-2022) for Visual Studio 2022 code metrics – Naktis Oct 25 '22 at 22:01

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 23 '08 at 21:12

Most of these capabilities are included with Visual Studio 2008 Team System.

Under the Tools | Analyze menu there are options for Code Metrics. Most of your desired features are all there: Cyclomatic Complexity, LOC, and Microsoft's (a variant of the SEI maintainability index that instead goes from 0-100, where 100 is most maintainable) - as well as Depth of Inheritance, and Class Coupling as bonus features. It does not include number of commented lines.

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Apr 08 '11 at 18:23

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I wrote a (completely) free code analysis app for .Net - Nitriq

answered Apr 08 '11 at 18:23

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Nitriq is a great tool. I use it for reverse engineering. – Rénald Jun 05 '15 at 17:46
It does not work on Windows 10 – xpmatteo Feb 05 '16 at 11:02
I did not find a way to download this software from the website. All links lead to 404 or broken Dropbox file – Alex Sorokoletov Oct 18 '17 at 01:40

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