How do you count the lines of code in a Visual Studio solution

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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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Here s an update for Visual Studio 2012 2013 2015 for those who want to do the  Find  option  which I find to be the easiest    This RegEx will find all non-blank lines with several exclusions to give the most accurate results   Enter the following RegEx into the  Find  box   Please make sure to select the  Use Regular Expressions  option   Change the search option to either  Current Project  or  Entire Solution  depending on your needs   Now select  Find All    At the bottom of the Find Results window  you will see  Matching Lines  which is the lines of code count           s          s  - -  gt        s   lt    - -       s  n       s            s            s              s            s          s          s using           This RegEx excludes the following items     Comments     This is a comment     Multi-Line comments  assuming the lines are correctly commented with a   in front of each line      I am a   multi-line   comment        XML for Intellisense       lt summary gt      I m a class description for Intellisense      lt  summary gt      HTML Comments    lt  -- I am a HTML Comment -- gt      Using statements   using System  using System Web      Opening curly braces         Closing curly braces         Note   anything between the braces would be included in the search  but in this example only 4 lines of code would count  instead of 18 actual non-blank lines           public class Test                            lt summary gt                  Do Stuff                  lt  summary gt              public Test                                 TestMe                              public void TestMe                                   Do Stuff Here                    And                    Do                    Stuff                    Here                                I created this to give me a much more accurate LOC count than some previous options  and figured I would share   The bosses love LOC counts  so I m stuck with it for a while   I hope someone else can find this helpful  let me know if you have any questions or need help getting it to work

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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

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Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate has this built-in      Analyze   Calculate Code Metrics

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Answers here are a little bit out of date  may be from vs 2008 time  Because in newer Visual Studio versions 2010 2012  this feature is already built-in  Thus there are no reason to use any extension or tools for it    Feature to count lines of code - Calculate Metrics  With it you can calculate your metrics  LOC  Maintaince index  Cyclomatic index  Depth of inheritence  for each project or solution   Just right click on solution or project in Solution Explorer     and select  Calculate metrics     Later data for analysis and aggregation could be imported to Excel  Also in Excel you can filter out generated classes  or other noise from your metrics  These metrics including Lines of code LOC could be gathered also during build process  and included in build report

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In Visual Studio Team System 2008 you can do from the menu Analyze--   Calculate Code Metrics for Solution  and it will give you a line count of your entire solution  among other things g

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Agree with Ali Parr  The WndTab Line Counter addin is a such tool   http   www codeproject com KB macros linecount aspx  It s also a good idea to search from download site to find some related tool  http   www cnet com 1770-5 1-0 html query code counter amp tag srch

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

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I prefer OxyProject Metrics VS Addin

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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 gt   gci -include   cs   xaml -recurse   select-string    Count 8396 PS C  Path gt    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 gt   gci -include   cs   cpp   h   idl   asmx -recurse   select-string    Count 909402 PS C  Other gt    Why use an entire app when a single command-line will do it

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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 amp comment news 1 41 0

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You can use free tool SourceMonitor  Gives a lot of measures  Lines of Code  Statement Count  Complexity  Block Depth  Has graphical outputs via charts

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You could use    SCLOCCount http   www dwheeler com sloccount - Open source loc metrics  http   www locmetrics com  - not open source  but easy to use

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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

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Other simple tool For VS2008  open source   http   www accendo sk Download SourceStat zip

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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

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Try neptuner  It also gives you stuff like spaces  tabs  Lines of comments in addition to LoC  http   neptuner googlecode com files neptuner 0 30 windows zip

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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

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In Visual Studio 2015 go to the Analyze Menu and select  Calculate Code Metrics

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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

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In Visual Studio 2019  from the top menu you need to select   Analyze  - gt   Calculate Code Metrics  - gt   For Solution   This works in both Visual Studio 2019 Professional and Enterprise

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Obviously tools are easier  but I feel cool doing this in powershell    This script finds all the  csproj references in the  sln file  and then within each csproj file it locates files included for compilation  For each file that is included for compilation it creates an object with properties  Solution  Project  File  Lines  It stores all these objects in a list  and then groups and projects the data as needed    path to the solution file e g   D  Code Test sln   slnFile    D  Code Test sln     results  results         iterate through  csproj references in solution file foreach  projLines in get-item  slnFile   Get-Content   Select-String     csproj          projFile    System IO Path   Combine  System IO Path   GetDirectoryName  slnFile    regex   Match  projLines       csproj   Value       projFolder    System IO Path   GetDirectoryName  projFile        from csproj file  get lines for files to compile  lt Compile Include        gt       includeLines   get-item  projFile   Get-Content   Select-String   lt Compile Include         count of all files lines in project      linesInProject   0      foreach  fileLine in  includeLines                 includedFilePath    System IO Path   Combine  projFolder   Regex   Match  fileLine       lt file gt        Groups  file   Value           lineCountInFile    Get-Content  includedFilePath  Count                results  New-Object PSObject -Property    Solution  slnFile  Project  projFile  File  includedFilePath  Lines  lineCountInFile             filter out any files we dont need  results    results          File -match  Designer       print out    ---------------lines per solution--------------   results   group Solution        Name              Group   Measure-Object Lines -Sum  Sum   ---------------lines per peoject--------------   results   group Project        Name              Group   Measure-Object Lines -Sum  Sum

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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

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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

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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   You can use    n s  r n to skip blank and space-only lines  credits to Zach in the comments

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I came up with a quick and dirty powershell script for counting lines in a folder structure  It s not nearly as full featured as some of the other tools referenced in other answers  but I think it s good enough to provide a rough comparison of the size of code files relative to one another in a project or solution   The script can be found here   https   gist github com 1674457

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Found this tip  LOC with VS Find and replace  Not a plugin though if thats what you are looking for

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