How do you count the lines of code in a Visual Stu

Question

Is it possible to find the number of lines of code in an entire solution? I've heard of MZ-Tools, but is there an open source equivalent?

Answer 1

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate has this built-in.

Analyze -> Calculate Code Metrics

Answer 2

Regular expressions have changed between VS2010 and 2012, so most of the regular expression solutions here no longer work

(^(?!(\s*//.+)))+(^(?!(#.+)))+(^(?!(\s*\{.+)))+(^(?!(\s*\}.+)))+(^(?!(\s*\r?$)))+

Will find all lines that are not blank, are not just a single bracket ( '{' or '}' ) and not just a #include or other preprocessor.

Use Ctrl-shift-f and make sure regular expressions are enabled.

The corresponding regular expression for VS 2010 and older is

^~(:Wh@//.+)~(:Wh@\{:Wh@)~(:Wh@\}:Wh@)~(:Wh@/#).+

Answer 3

You can use the Visual Studio Code Metrics PowerTool 10.0. It's a command-line utility that calculates a few metrics on managed code for you (including lines of code). You can get a VS 2010 plugin that brings the tool into Visual Studio, and makes it as quick as selecting the menu item and clicking "Analyze Solution."

Answer 4

For future readers I'd like to advise the DPack extension for Visual Studio 2010.

It's got a load of utilities built in including a line counter which says how many lines are blank, code, and etc.

Answer 5

A simple solution is to search in all files. Type in "*" while using wildcards. Which would match all lines. At the end of the find results window you should see a line of the sort:

Matching lines: 563 Matching files: 17 Total files searched: 17

Of course this is not very good for large projects, since all lines are mached and loaded into memory to be dispayed at the find results window.

Reference:

• Advanced Example

Answer 6

I prefer OxyProject Metrics VS Addin.