Today Patrick gives me a new license for his static code analysis tool NDepend for my fresh machine with Win7/64. This platform is new for me, so some things are different to Win XP. Maybe that till yet some of these things are not well enough understandanded from me. So i stepped in some traps.

Here are my notes to get NDepend running.

1. Download of NDepend Professional Edition from
   http://www.ndepend.com/NDependDownload.aspx
    
2. Extracted to
   c:\program files (x86)\NDepend
    
3. Started NDepend.Install.VisualStudioAddin.exe
   this failed with
   
   Okay – sounds plausible.
    
4. Copy NDependProLicense.xml to this folder
    
5. Next try with NDepend.Install.VisualStudioAddin.exe opens the integration dialog
   
    
6. Registering in Visual Studio failed with
   
    
7. Manually unblock as described (first solution hint)
   
    
   and here comes my largest understanding problem. After unblocking this file
   
    
   and closing this dialog the next opening shows the blocking again:
   
   Why?
   So the same error during integration pops up.
    
8. Okay – tried the second solution hint with copying folders
   Copy all to a full accessable folder under c:\temp\
    
9. Now the installation works
   
    
   
   looks good
    
10. copying the folders back to
c:\program files (x86)\NDepend
 

11. starting Visual Studio failed with
     
     
12. Okay – copying the folder to a private application folder
    c:\users\apf\My Applications\NDepend
     
13. Installing again
     
14. Now Visual Studio runs and NDepend is integrated
    

Nevertheless my machine is only used by me, i prefer “all user”-installations. The described way works sadly only for my account.