9.3 Analyzing Code Inside Visual Studio with CR_Metrics
Standalone complexity-analysis tools are vital for a comprehensive picture of your code base, but it’s nice to be able to take a quick look at metrics for the code you’re currently working on without having to leave your development environment. If you’re using Visual Studio, CR_Metrics enables you to do just that—you can quickly examine the metrics without having to leave Visual Studio to fire off another app or a task in your build system.
CR_Metrics, part of the CR_Plugin package, is built on the DXCore framework from Developer Express. DXCore is an IDE integration framework enabling developers to quickly create powerful add-ins for Visual Studio.
CR_Metrics computes cyclomatic complexity and adds two other very useful metrics: lines of code and a custom maintenance complexity metric.
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Tool | CR_Metrics |
Version covered | 1.02.28.0 |
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Summary | Handy tool for quickly examining assembly and file metrics inside Visual Studio |
License type | BSD (plug-in only; DXCore restricted) |
Online resources | Forum |
Supported Frameworks | .NET 1.1, 2.0 |
Related tools in this book | CR_Documentor, Peli’s Reflector Addins, SourceMonitor, NDepend |
Getting Started
CR_Metrics requires DXCore, available from Developer Express (http://www.devexpress.com/Downloads/NET/IDETools/DXCore/ ...
