Seeing what was always there : Depend and the NHibernate 2.0 Use Case

When Patrick Smacchia [MVP C#] posted using his amazing tool NDepend on the changes in .NET 3.5 SP1, it seemed only natural as we had been obsessed, intrigued and blown away by NDepend for what seems like years and years. However his post ,without us realizing, set a new standard of content. We didn't think twice about covering NHibernate 2.0 and adding the NDepend output as 'Patrick did it for SP1 and everyone loved it'. This is a very, very good thing. It means people care about dependencies (it is after all called NDepend) as indeed a criticul success factor. But there is so much more. So much more......Lets hope this level of discussion and understanding become part of our culture as much as the long-awaited 'OO Design' mandates are not part of .NET culture. Damon Wilder Carr Anyway,