CHANGELOG.md

NsDepCop Change Log

v2.2.0

(09/2022)

• New: Wildcard patterns for namespaces.

v2.1.0

(07/2022)

• New: ParentCanDependOnChildImplicitly config attribute.

v2.0.1

(03/2022)

• Fix: #60 - Statically imported type dependency not detected.

v2.0.0

(06/2021)

The big change in this version is that the implementation changed from MSBuild task + Visual Studio Extension to a standard Roslyn analyzer.

• NsDepCop must be added to a project as a NuGet package.
• Appears in Solution Explorer: project / Dependencies / Analyzers / NsDepCop.Analyzer
• Issue severities can be configured that same way as other analyzers (use Visual Studio or .editorconfig files).
• Works both at build time and inside Visual Studio editor.
• Requires Visual Studio 2019 (16.10.0 or later).
• Supports .NET Core / .NET 5 / etc. projects too.
• Uses Roslyn 3.9.0.

Stuff that was removed:

• No need for the NsDepCop Visual Studio Extension any more.
• No need for the out-of-process service host any more.
• Dropped support for VS 2015/2017. For those, use NsDepCop v1.11.0.
• Config attributes no longer supported (ignored): CodeIssueKind, MaxIssueCountSeverity, InfoImportance, AnalyzerServiceCallRetryTimeSpans.

Other info:

• AutoLowerMaxIssueCount feature is temporarily not supported.

v1.11.0

(04/2020)

• New: Disable/force NsDepCop with MSBuild property.

v1.10.1

(02/2020)

• Fix: #51 - RemotingException when using different NsDepCop NuGet and VSIX version.

v1.10.0

(04/2019)

• New: Support Visual Studio 2019

v1.9.0

(03/2019)

• New: Support incremental build - don't run the tool if there was no change in the source/config files.
• New: Global turn off switch - DisableNsDepCop environment variable.
• New: Excluding files from analysis - ExcludedFiles attribute in config.nsdepcop.

v1.8.2

(01/2019)

• Fix: #43 (for real this time) - RemotingException when path contains space.

v1.8.1

(12/2018)

• Fix: #43 - RemotingException when path contains space.

v1.8.0

(07/2018)

• Enhancements in launching the out-of-process service host (configurable retry intervals, allow access for any user).
• MaxIssueCountSeverity - enables breaking the build when a threshold number of dependency violations has been reached.
• AutoLowerMaxIssueCount - automatically lower MaxIssueCount to encourage cleaning up dependency problems and prohibit introducing new ones.
• Supports C# up to 7.3.
• The Visual Studio Extension (VSIX) requires 15.7.4 or higher.

v1.7.1

(07/2017)

• Performance enhancement when run by MSBuild.
  • The analyzer keeps running in its own process to avoid repeated creation cost. Shuts down with parent process.

v1.7.0

(07/2017)

• New: C# 7 support.
• New: Visual Studio 2017 support.
• Removed: MSI installer.
  • Config XML schema support is now available as a Visual Studio Extension (only for VS2017).
  • Global MSBuild-integration is discontinued. Please use per-project MSBuild integration via the NuGet package.

v1.6.1

(04/2017)

• Fix: Type without a name caused exception in analyzer.

v1.6.0

(03/2017)

• New: NuGet package.
  • Enables per-project MSBuild integration.
  • Enables zero install on build machine.
• New: Multi-level config file.
  • Use the InheritanceDepth config attribute to specify the number of parent folder levels to merge config files from.
  • Use it to get rid of redundant rules and settings in nsdepcop.config files and move them to a common place, eg. to solution level or repo root level.
• Changed: MSI installer modified.
  • Option (default on): config.nsdepcop XML schema support updated.
  • Option (default off): Machine-wide MSBuild integration. Not recommended any more, use the NuGet (per-project) distribution instead.
  • Removed option: Visual Studio 2015 integration. Use the VSIX package directly instead.
• Fixed:
  • Types in enum and delegate declarations were not analyzed.
  • Constructed generic, array and pointer types are now analyzed recursively.
  • Source and metadata file load errors are now handled gracefully.
• Changed: Roslyn version updated to 1.3.2.
• Changed: Removed NRefactory as a parser choice.

Upgrading

• To upgrade please uninstall the previous version first.
  • Your existing config.nsdepcop files will be preserved.
• Then install the new version.
  • Recommended: change to per-project MSBuild integration with NuGet. See README.md for details.
  • Please note that if you don't uninstall the previous version then its machine-wide MSBuild integration will override the per-project integration provided by the NuGet package and the old analyzer version will run at build time.

v1.5

(06/2016)

• Supports Visual Studio 2015 only.
• New: Use the VisibleMembers element to fine-tune the allowed dependencies at the type level.
• New: Added config.nsdepcop XML schema support to Visual Studio so it can validate config syntax and provide IntelliSense.
• Fixed: adding an nsdepcop.config file to a project now works for all C# projects (incl. portable lib).
• Changed: Roslyn version updated to 1.2.2.

v1.4

(08/2015)

• Supports Visual Studio 2015 only.
• New: Info messages' level can be configured to suppress/enable them in the MSBuild output.
• New: ChildCanDependOnParentImplicitly config attribute.
• Fixed:
  • MSBuild return code was success even if an error was detected.
  • Extension method declaring type was not checked.
• Changed: Roslyn version updated to 1.0.
• Icons (tadaaa! :)

v1.3

(01/2015)

• Supports Visual Studio 2013 only.
• New: Disallowed rules.

v1.2

(08/2014)

• Supports Visual Studio 2013 only.
• Requires the Roslyn End User Preview of April 2014.

v1.1

(07/2013)

• Supports Visual Studio 2012 only.
• Requires Roslyn September 2012 CTP.
• New: Added NRefactory as the default parser for the MSBuild task.

v1.0

(03/2013)

• Supports Visual Studio 2012 only.
• Requires Roslyn September 2012 CTP.