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I'm looking for a toolkit to allow me to draw lines and boxes at design time in Visual Studio 2008 for .NET Compact Framework 2.0.
I've looked over the VisualBasic PowerPacks but that seems to be available only for desktop .NET.
Does anyone know of any such tool?
You need to put your directory structure in your project directory. And then click "Show All Files" icon in the top of Solution Explorer toolbox. After that, the added directory will be shown up. You will then need to select this directory, right click, and choose "Include in Project."
I've found powershell useful for this. I consider LoC to be a pretty bogus metric anyway, so I don't believe anything more formal should be required.
From a smallish solution's directory:
PS C:\Path> (gci -include *.cs,*.xaml -recurse | select-string .).Count
8396
PS C:\Path>
That will count the non-blank lines in all the solution's .cs and .xaml files. For a larger project, I just used a different extension list:
PS C:\Other> (gci -include *.cs,*.cpp,*.h,*.idl,*.asmx -recurse | select-string .).Count
909402
PS C:\Other>
Why use an entire app when a single command-line will do it? :)
Best Answer
Are you using WinForms? A lot of the controls implement a Site property which returns this type http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.isite.aspx is has a DesignMode property which you can use to check if it's in design mode or not.
In the void OnRender(...) method you can check this property if it's set or not and you can then draw depending on design time or not.
Check out this post about potentional problems with Site and the DesignMode property http://decav.com/blogs/andre/archive/2007/04/18/1078.aspx