Is there some free tool (preferably command line based) that you can give your root source directory and it will inspect all files and sub-folders and generate a set of nice "statistics"? Like... lines of code, number of classes, etc?
I just thought it would be quite a nice and interesting way for us to keep track of the project's growth.
Source Monitor from http://www.campwoodsw.com/ will do that and one hell of a lot more. Works with C#. VB.NET, C, C++ and others, either from the command line or its own GUI. It's free & it's great.
G'day,
It doesn't really matter what you use if you're tracking project growth just so long as you are consistent in your measurement approach.
You could even use a grep for trailing semi-colons as a simple measure of SLOC.
HTH
cheers,
I use CLOC (http://cloc.sourceforge.net/). Works great, and supports a ton of languages. Command line based, has a lot of options (exports stats into xml/csv too, so you can programatically dig into the stats easily)
There's the CodeMetrics Add-In for .NET Reflector; I don't know of a way to run it from the command-line, but it might be possible. Are you wanting to use this in a CI build? It works on assemblies, not source code.