I'm here to tell you about my latest invention: SourceMetrics. It is a commandline tool to scan a source repository (actually just Visual Sourcesafe for now) and report a cool set of statistics about its contents.

Currently, it reports:

• Total number of files
• Total number of bytes
• Total number of lines
• Total number of code lines
• Total number of comment lines

As this tool reports code as Xml, it will be very easy to integrate with build script and tools like CruiseControl. The effect of having some kind of time-related statistics are huge. As first beta, and more info will be posted lated on.