Tips on a tool to measure code quality?

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I'm looking for a tool that can provide code quality metrics.
For instance it could report

very long functions (spaghetti code)
very complex classes (which could contain do-it-all code)
...

While we're on the (subjective:-) subject of code quality, what other code metrics would you suggest?

I'm targetting C#/.NET code, but I'm sure this could extend to most programming languages.

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