I am planning to write a plug-in for VS2005 as part of academic project. Can anyone suggest me some ideas about what to implement.
 

Regards 

 Write a plugin that will:

• Read the connection string (or strings )
• Display a list of tables to the user from which one is selected
• Prompt for an aspx form name
• Output a new form with a grid view populated with entries for all the columns

A plug-in that reports number of lines of code (code, markup, script, including and excluding comments) in the solution has been a popular request.

 The main aim of new plug-ins/addons is to include new feature for VS2005 which is not there already. The plugin should be reasonable big enough so that I can submit it as a masters project.

 Do you think the above plugin will be that big enough.

Will award points If I find the reply useful.

Regards... 

It will probably be around few hundred lines, perhaps about a thousand. It will be useful, I don't think VS provides this feature. It won't be very algorithmically complex though, so I don't know if it is good for masters.

VERY GOOD IDEA, MIKHAIL!!!

I was just about to suggest this as well 

I think it would be complex enough, especially if it separated the counts for each file type/language.  You would have to differentiate <asp:> controls from HTML controls as well (if you wanted to split ASP.NET and HTML for accuracy sake).  Maybe provide options to only count for certain languages and exclude/include comments (as already mentioned).

I think it's a superb idea and will be used by many 

 Code count sounds good - The Unix word count rides again!

Hello,

 Can you please let me know how this plugin (lines of code count)  is useful?

Regards
 

 > Can you please let me know how this plugin (lines of code count)  is useful?
Under most other languages there is a status option of an OS command that will give you the line count. e.g. wc -l *.* in Linux will give the line count of all the files in the current directory.

It provides a means by which the amount of effort in a given project may be compared with another. 

The numbers will be highly useful in only a few cases.  I think it's mainly for informative purposes, though.  I really would like to know how many lines of code are in this solution!

Hi crazy4asp.net,
 
The line counter Add-in has been implemented by Jon Rista. He shared his code in the following link. Please refer the demo code and then you may get some great ideas to extend this Add-in or create a new one.

Line Counter - Writing a Visual Studio 2005 Add-In
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/LineCounterAddin.asp

To get start of creating Add-in, please refer to the link below:

How to: Create an Add-in
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/80493a3w(VS.80).aspx

 Benson, Excellent link - it will be appreciated by many people.