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

I used Ctrl+Shift+F. Next, put a \n in the search box and enable regular expressions box. Then in the find results, in the end of the screen are the number of files searched and lines of code found.

Answer 2

You can use the Project Line Counter add-in in Visual Studio 2010. Normally it doesn't work with Visual Studio 2010, but it does with a helpful .reg file from here: http://www.onemanmmo.com/index.php?cmd=newsitem&comment=news.1.41.0

Answer 3

cloc is an excellent commandline, Perl-based, Windows-executable which will break down the blank lines, commented lines, and source lines of code, grouped by file-formats.

Now it won't specifically run on a VS solution file, but it can recurse through directories, and you can set up filename filters as you see fit.

Here's the sample output from their web page:

prompt> cloc perl-5.10.0.tar.gz
    4076 text files.
    3883 unique files.                                          
    1521 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.07  T=10.0 s (251.0 files/s, 84566.5 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language          files     blank   comment      code    scale   3rd gen. equiv
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Perl               2052    110356    112521    309778 x   4.00 =     1239112.00
C                   135     18718     22862    140483 x   0.77 =      108171.91
C/C++ Header        147      7650     12093     44042 x   1.00 =       44042.00
Bourne Shell        116      3402      5789     36882 x   3.81 =      140520.42
Lisp                  1       684      2242      7515 x   1.25 =        9393.75
make                  7       498       473      2044 x   2.50 =        5110.00
C++                  10       312       277      2000 x   1.51 =        3020.00
XML                  26       231         0      1972 x   1.90 =        3746.80
yacc                  2       128        97      1549 x   1.51 =        2338.99
YAML                  2         2         0       489 x   0.90 =         440.10
DOS Batch            11        85        50       322 x   0.63 =         202.86
HTML                  1        19         2        98 x   1.90 =         186.20
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM:               2510    142085    156406    547174 x   2.84 =     1556285.03
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The third generation equivalent scale is a rough estimate of how much code it would take in a third generation language. Not terribly useful, but interesting anyway.

Answer 4

An open source line counter for VS2005, 2003 and 2002 is available here:

http://www.wndtabs.com/

There is also discussion of creating a line counting VS addin, complete with code on Codeproject, here

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/LineCounterAddin.aspx

Also Slick Edit Gadgets have a nice line-counter, here:

http://www.slickedit.com/products/slickedit

and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 includes a good line counter.

Just remember though:

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. Bill Gates

Answer 5

Use Menu-> Analyse - > Calculate Code Metrics option in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate.

Answer 6

Here is the Trick.. It counts the Js file also.

http://www.spoiledtechie.com/post/2011/11/22/How-To-Count-Lines-of-Code-in-Visual-Studio.aspx