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Introduction

WinCount is a little utility for measuring the number of lines of code in your program (or any number of text files in a directory). Very easy to use and install.

VS.NET setup as external tool:

Installation:

Just put the WinCount.exe file somewhere on your hard drive and
run the program by double clicking the executable.

To install in VS.NET as external tool:

Go to Tools/External Tools.
Click on Add button.
Fill the fields as follows:
- Name: WinCount
- Command: Path to the winCount.exe file
- Arguments: $(SolutionDir)
- Initial Directory: blank (nothing at all)
Click OK.
Now, you can run the program by going to Tools and selecting WinCount.

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Lightweight footprint; fast; 9 out of 10

MioTEK

7:45 30 May '07

Excellent program. Installed, compiled, built, and executed exactly as advertised. Werdna, you're a rock star ;^) ============================= "When people do not realize their own intellectual limits, they do not enter into the struggle to understand that which they have failed to comprehend." -- Bruce Harvey ============================= www.idbDeveloper.com
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Another issue

Bill Seddon

23:04 16 Apr '07

The utility assumes that files for a web project are in a sub-folder of wwwroot which is the default for Microsoft but not for many applications.
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exception!

giddy_guitarist

3:55 15 Dec '06

at line 406 :

System.InvalidOperationException was unhandled
Message="Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'cmdCount' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on."
Source="System.Windows.Forms"
StackTrace:
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.get_Handle()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_WindowText(String value)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_Text(String value)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.set_Text(String value)
at WinCount.WinCountForm.CountStart() in E:\Gid\Programming\CSharp\WinCount[source code cnt]\WinCountForm.cs:line 406
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()

not work

Yilmaz YÖRÜK

22:10 19 Jun '06

your code has called into another function
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another sample written by C#.

KingMarine

18:25 27 Jan '05

another sample written by C#. counting source code lines, comment lines, space lines. Just select the project file, then you can get summary for all files included in this project. Now support C#(.csproj), VB.Net(.vbproj), VC.Net(.vcproj), VC6 project file(DSW,DSP) you can download it from [here] enjoy it. sun shaodi
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How to count "lines of code"?

davecraft

8:14 5 Nov '04

The program is just showing total number of lines in the file (like "wc -l"). How do I show LOC?
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Re: How to count "lines of code"?

Werdna

10:36 5 Nov '04

If you click on "Options..." then you can check not to count blank lines and comment lines. I'm not sure if the version here at CodeProject has this functionality, but you can download latest version from http://www.adersoftware.com/?page=winCount
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Added code to clear the file list

Drew Berkemeyer

7:01 17 Feb '04

I also added the following code to the CountStart() method to clear the file list if the Count button is pressed more than once: // clear the current file list files.Clear(); int count = Count(txtDirectory.Text, mask, root); - Drew
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Added code to omit blank and comment lines

Drew Berkemeyer

6:51 17 Feb '04

Hello,

I added the following code to CountFile() method to skip comment and blank lines.

NOTE: The code below will still count the last line of a /* */ block. However, it suited my purposes well enough and I didn't want to spend more than the 5 minutes it took to make these changes.

Hope someone finds this useful.


bool bCountLine = true;
string strLine;
while ((strLine = reader.ReadLine()) != null)
{
	if (false == bCountLine &&
		strLine.IndexOf("*/") != -1)
	{
		bCountLine = true;
	}
	else if (strLine.Trim().IndexOf("/*") == 0)
		bCountLine = false;

	if (true == bCountLine && 
            strLine.Trim().Length > 0 &&
	    strLine.Trim().IndexOf("//") != 0) 
	    count++;
}

- Drew

Re: Added code to omit blank and comment lines

Werdna

9:24 18 Feb '04

I have added your suggestions to the program. There are options now to skip blank lines and/or comment lines. You can download the latest version from: http://www.adersoftware.com/?page=winCount
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