How can I easily count the number of Forms in a large solution?

How can I easily count the number of Forms in a large solution?

I have Visual Studio solution containing 20+ winforms projects. I have to do a task where I have to inspect every form, and I have to give an effort estimate to my project lead. This estimate is best given in terms of the number of forms. It's useful to report pro开发者_C百科gress in terms of "27/275 forms done, spend 3 hours".

For this project, I use VS 2008 and Resharper 5.

A more general answer, for instance on "how to count the number of classes deriving from a specified class" would also be nice.

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This is built into ReSharper - no code or extra tools needed. I don't have ReSharper 5 in front of me, but on version 4.5, I'd use the menu command under ReSharper > Search > Find Usages Advanced.

From there you can generate a list of all classes that inherit from System.Windows.Form. Then, either look at the list of search results in the IDE, or export it to a file for further inspection.

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Here is a simple easy way which works if your projects are organised in a nice heirarchal way - open Windows File Explorer at the root of the solution, and do a search on file suffix, once the search is finished the count of files will be in the Explorer status bar at the bottom.

For classes that used C#, i could do a whole solution search for the text : MyBaseClass, in the Find window this would return all the classes which derived from whatever MyBaseClass i happened to nominate. I'm not sure of the syntax for R# but you should be able to do something similar.

Lastly, i believe ReSharper has a function for this, but it might be only available in the paid version.

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I'd use Reflection for this, which will mean you will have to build the entire solution first.

Then make a list of all the assemblies, and then get all namespaces a described here.

Then you can get all the classes in a namespace, as described here.

It's fairly easy to check whether the type is derived from Form or not.

Hope this helps...