NDepend - Query to Reduce Matrix - ndepend

Question

I'm using NDepend to write a query to extract a subset of my assemblies and their dependent assemblies into a Dependency Matrix.
I would like to further reduce the size of the matrix to show only dependent assemblies that have a small or medium coupling (the ones that would be relatively easy to decouple) Therefore I only want to show the assemblies that have < 20 method usages.
how do I update this query to show this?
let agentAssemblies =Assemblies.WithNameLike("Agent")
let assembliesUsedByAgents = Assemblies.ExceptThirdParty().UsedByAny(agentAssemblies)
from a in agentAssemblies.Union(assembliesUsedByAgents )
select a

Answer 1

You can refine the query this way:
let agentAssemblies = Assemblies.WithNameLike("Agent")
let assembliesUsedByAgents = Assemblies.ExceptThirdParty().UsedByAny(agentAssemblies)
from a in assembliesUsedByAgents
let methodsUsedFromAgentAssemblies = a.ChildMethods.UsedByAny(agentAssemblies)
where methodsUsedFromAgentAssemblies.Count() < 20
let agentAssembliesMethodsUsingMe = agentAssemblies.ChildMethods().UsingAny(methodsUsedFromAgentAssemblies)
select new {
a,
methodsUsedFromAgentAssemblies ,
agentAssembliesMethodsUsingMe
}
From the code query result you can visualise both methodsUsedFromAgentAssemblies and agentAssembliesMethodsUsingMe...
.. and by right clicking methods sets, you can export both sets to the Dependency Matrix to have a clear understanding of which method is calling which method.