The infamous KLoCs....

I'm not really sure why I'm bothering to start this thread - I think it because I've always wondered what people are doing with VB out there.

So, the gist is, what's is the largest program you've written in VB? Time to talk tech - spit out some line counts, numbor of forms, mods, classes etc, and anything else remotely interesting (like what the project was)

Ok, so it's a pointless excercise, but i'm interested to see what everybody else is actually using VB for.

I'll start to get you all in the mood....

Biggest project I've written (well, it was written by a group of four of us) was about 450,000 lines of VB code spread of a 38 project group for the client and a 17 project group of the server. Ran on 486's, and the main client EXE was ~700K.

It also took close to eighteen months to develop (it was an insurance company system). Dog of a job, but in the process we developed some pretty nice generic code that we've reused pretty much everywhere since.


- gaffa

[fallnwrld]

Well mine isn't as big, but was fun to build. Was a log in program for a college. Had 19 Forms, 3 bas files, main exe was about 1.7 meg, only because of the bitmaps, in average it was about 400k, lines of code, wow a lot hehe not really sure. Named of the project was called Flag Screen. Still has bugs actually, work on it every once in a while when they find a new bug. Whelp, hope it sparks the interest.

Is it running at a clients, or did you write it for your own enjoyment. for some reason, I never seem to get around ot finisheing anything I write for fun..

- gaffa

[kovan]

corrent project
.exe is 2.2 mb (stupid pictures)
32 forms
5 modules

woudn't have a clue how many lines of code
am guessing maybe 5000 or so

If you want to do a line count, I wrote an add-in ages ago to do it. You can download it, and the source code, from:

http://www.redgumtech.com.au/developers/projstat.shtml

I use an updated version at work, and I'm not sure how solid this one is, but if you download the source, you can play with it and get it running. I think most of the code is reasonalby well commented.

cheers

- gaffa

[fallnwrld]

It was for my own enjoyment, but its to make my job easier so I can deal with technical support instead of making sure people signed in.

[kovan]

thank you

6990 lines of code
i was close
(**** i typed all that?)