Installation experiences with NDepend under Win7/64 with restricted user permissions

Today Patrick from NDepend gave 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 understood from me. So I stepped in some traps.

Here are my notes to get NDepend running.

1. Download of NDepend Professional Edition from here

2. Extracted to c:\program files (x86)\NDepend

3. Start 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 accessible 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.