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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?
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In VS2010 there is a in-built tool that counts all lines of code and other values too: Go to View -> Other Windows -> Code metrics results. A little button in the corner that looks like a calendar, click that, the tooltip should say Calculate code metrics for soulution, and let VS do it's thing.
Take one of your existing project, get the number of lines and divide it by the time it took you to code it. This will give you a kind of lines per hour metric. Then, try to estimate how many time you have worked with that specific language and multiply it with your already calculated metric.
I've found powershell useful for this. I consider LoC to be a pretty bogus metric anyway, so I don't believe anything more formal should be required.
From a smallish solution's directory:
PS C:\Path> (gci -include *.cs,*.xaml -recurse | select-string .).Count 8396 PS C:\Path> That will count the non-blank lines in all the solution's .cs and .xaml files. For a larger project, I just used a different extension list:
PS C:\Other> (gci -include *.cs,*.cpp,*.h,*.idl,*.asmx -recurse | select-string .).Count 909402 PS C:\Other> Why use an entire app when a single command-line will do it? :)
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