I'm using Visual Studio 2008 (C++) and would like to produce a list of all classes that are defined in that project. Does anyone know tools that extract those easily?
A simple 'Find in files' will not be sufficient, of course.
Edit: The list of classes should be created automatically and the result should be a simple file of class names (one class each line).
You can browse all classes etc. in your project in the Class View window (View > Class View). You can even create your own folders and organize the classes to create your own structure. E.g. you could create folders named Refactor, Unused, Suspect etc.
You cannot print the class view, but the browser might still be helpful to you.
You could use a tool like ctags to produce a tags file containing this class information.
EDIT: I just checked this ctags.exe command line inside the Zeus editor and it seems to do what you require:
ctags.exe --C++-kinds=+c-d-e-f-g-l-m-M-n-p-s-t-T-u-v-x-X-V somefile.cpp
This command line excludes all but the class information from the tag output, so running this command against a c++ file will result in a tags text file that contains nothing but the class information from that file.
For example, here is contents of the tags file for one of the Zeus header files:
!_TAG_FILE_FORMAT 2 /extended format; --format=1 will not append ;" to lines/
!_TAG_FILE_SORTED 1 /0=unsorted, 1=sorted, 2=foldcase/
!_TAG_PROGRAM_AUTHOR Darren Hiebert /[email protected]/
!_TAG_PROGRAM_NAME Exuberant Ctags //
!_TAG_PROGRAM_URL http://ctags.sourceforge.net /official site/
!_TAG_PROGRAM_VERSION 5.7 //
ZeusRebar c:\projects\zeus3.96\zfwbar01.hpp /^class ZeusRebar : public xRebar$/;" c
ZeusToolBar c:\projects\zeus3.96\zfwbar01.hpp /^class ZeusToolBar : public xToolBar$/;" c
ZeusToolPanel c:\projects\zeus3.96\zfwbar01.hpp /^class ZeusToolPanel : public ZeusRebar$/;" c