How do you count the lines of code your application has? As far as I know Visual Studio does not provide this functionality, so needless to say, we are doing that with PowerShell 
$num = 0dir c:\root\ -include *.cs -Recurse | ForEach-Object {$file=[array](Get-Content $_ )$num += $file.length}$num
You obviously need to change c:\root to your root folder path, and change the *.cs mask to the one applicable to your source code.
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Another approach would be:
dir c:\root\ -include *.cs -Recurse | Get-Content | Measure -Line
Make that Measure-Object (measure is an alias I set up).
By the way, “-filter *.cs” is a lot faster than “-include *.cs” … personally I like to not count empty lines, so I filter them out with something like:
ls -recurse -filter *.cs | gc | ? { -not $_.Trim().Length -eq 0)) } | measure-object -line
If you don’t want to count the comment lines, you could also filter those out (note that you have to change your comment string if you’re not working on C#, and that this doesn’t exclude /* comment blocks */)
ls -recurse -filter *.cs | gc | ? { $str = $_.Trim(); -not ($str.StartsWith(“//”) -or ($str.Length -eq 0)) } | measure -line
Joel, measure-object -line will skip empty lines by default. But for other commands you can filter empty lines just this way: |?{$_}
Wow, I didn’t know about Measure-Object – it turns the script into a real one-liner – which is always the goal here, right?
Learning something new every day! Thanks guys!
It was first script in Monad shell I’ve witten myself. Thank you for reminding
thats very useful , i will use it
thanks