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Hi,
I have VS 2026, last update, professional.
1.How many lines of code in my solution ?
2.I have README.md files, how many lines inside it?
Thanks,
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Hi @Dani_S ,
1.How many lines of code in my solution ?
Do you mean you want to count how many lines of code in every file inside of your solution? If so, you can follow this:
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.cs,*.js,*.ts,*.cpp,*.h |
Get-Content |
Measure-Object -Line
You can add more file type that you want to count, the above example will count the file type .cs, .js, .ts, .cpp, .h. If you want to exclude folder like bin or obj, use this example:
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.cs |
Where-Object { $_.FullName -notmatch "\\bin\\|\\obj\\" } |
Get-Content |
Measure-Object -Line
2.I have README.md files, how many lines inside it?
You can open the file and scroll to the end of the file, the last line number will tell you how many lines.
Hi Harry,
Hi @Dani_S , please try running the whole command, the result would look like this
This means my project has 1336 lines of code in every cs file (not include bin and obj)
I can add .md to the search with .cs
Yes, you can use the command I gave you too but checking it manually is faster if you only have one file readmoe.md only.
No, is not reasonable that I have same lines of code -1136 in each project.
There are more lines of code in each project , and each project has different count?
https://app.screencast.com/zx99FqvxpmRkd
I have 20 README.md.
Hi , in the video I still see you run 2 commands separately, this is incorrect:
You have to run this in one command (please look at the sample image I posted above): Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.cs | Where-Object { $_.FullName -notmatch "\\bin\\|\\obj\\" } | Get-Content | Measure-Object -Line
I have 20 README.md.
You can try the above command too:
Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Include *.md | Where-Object { $_.FullName -notmatch "\\bin\\|\\obj\\" } | Get-Content | Measure-Object -Line
Hi @Dani_S , yes, it means your whole project has 11425 lines of code in all cs files and 1475 lines of code in all md files. If you wish to count in another file, you can add it in the -Include parameter.
Hi Harry, thank you very much. You are very proffesinal programmer.
To find the number of lines of code in your solution using Visual Studio 2026, you can utilize the built-in code metrics feature. This feature allows you to analyze your code and provides metrics such as the number of lines of source code and executable code. You can access this feature from the Analyze menu by selecting Calculate Code Metrics for your solution or specific projects within it.
As for the lines inside your README.md files, Visual Studio does not provide a built-in feature to count lines in markdown files directly. You may need to open the README.md file in a text editor or use a script to count the lines manually.
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