Cyclomatic Complexity
I was introduced to Cyclomatic Complexity at Eric Rimbley’s course at Construx; I was facinated with the topic and found a tool that works with Visual Studio 2010 that gathers this metric: http://www.blunck.info/ccm.html
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Turning on the task list in VS2010
According to Microsoft, this is turned off by default for performance reasons: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/668650/task-list-is-not-working You can turn this on again in “Tools->Options->Text Editor->C/C++->Formatting-> Miscellaneous->Enumerate Comment Tasks”
Copying a project file to a known location
Within a Visual Studio C++ solution, you can copy a file to a known location as part of the build process. To do that, you have so set the “Custom Build Step” parameters found in the Visual Studio project’s property page: Command line: copy “$(InputPath)” “$(TargetDir)” > nul Description: Copying $(InputFileName) Outputs: $(TargetDir)$(InputFileName) Note, the … Read more
Useful Visual Studio Keystrokes
For the past 3 1/2 years, I have used Xcode almost solely for my development work, but, recently, I have switched over to Visual Studio to use some of the nifty tools that Intel has for performance profiling. The folks over at Microsoft have some nifty bloggers and one of them have this cool chart … Read more