IDE Add ins

[Bob]

Hi,
I was looking for an add-in that would measure cyclometirc complexity.
I think my undestanding of add-ins is minimal.
The offerings I have found appear to be a bunch of dlls
What is the general idea for ... dare I say it, adding in an add-in.
eg Devmetrics offering on SourceForge. I managed to upgrade all of the
subprojects to .dotnet 2 and built the final project but have no idea how to
utilise the output.
Thanks
Bob

 

[Oliver Sturm]

Hello Bob,

I was looking for an add-in that would measure cyclometirc complexity.

Disclaimer: I work for Developer Express.

I recommend you look at the metrics calculation support in DXCore and
possibly the visualization support in CodeRush and Refactor!, which are
all IDE productivity products available from Developer Express. CodeRush
and Refactor! are commercial products, but DXCore is a free extensibility
layer for Visual Studio that has special support for metrics calculation
plugins.

I think the best way for you to get a grip of how this solution can work
for you would be to watch the training video on custom metrics that is
availables from the following web page:

http://www.devexpress.com/products/net/idetools/CodeRush/Training.xml

The video I'm referring to is right at the bottom of that page and it's
called "Custom Metric".


Oliver Sturm