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Coverage Data FAQ

Which coverage technology is supported by NDepend?

How to get XML Coverage Files from NCover 2.X?

How to get XML Coverage Files from Visual Studio Team System™ 2005 and 2008?

How to provide a list of coverage files to parse during each analysis run?

How to import coverage data into some analysis results?

Which coverage technology is supported by NDepend?

NDepend can import coverage data from:

NCover™ 2.x and 3.x coverage files
Visual Studio Team System™ 2005 and 2008 XML coverage files

How to get XML Coverage Files from NCover?

Coverage files are in the folders specified by the NCover.Console.exe XML report command line flag.
If you are using TestDriven.NET and/or NCoverExplorer.exe you can access folder that contains coverage file from the Explore Coverage Folder menu:

How to get XML Coverage Files from Visual Studio Team System™ 2005 and 2008?

Visual Studio Team System™ has 2 coverage files format.

A binary format where file extension is .coverage. This is the format you'll get from testing from Visual Studio, from TestDriven.NET or from vsinstr.exe.
A XML format.

NDepend only consumes the XML format. You can manually export XML coverage files from binary coverage files from Visual Studio with this option:

You can programmatically transform a binary coverage file into a xml coverage file. See the Microsoft documentation:
http://blogs.msdn.com/ms_joc/articles/406608.aspx
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=273875&SiteID=1

How to provide a list of coverage files to parse during each analysis run?

In VisualNDepend menu: Project Properties > Analysis > Code Coverage > Settings

How to import coverage data into some analysis results

In VisualNDepend menu: Coverage > Import > Coverage Files

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