Software Managers all around the globe, need to have some metric to estimate their workers. Sometimes the management event wants to create a precise and measurable way to know the programming progress and the developers productivity and performance. One of those methods is called SLOC - Source Lines Of Code. This metric is used measure the size of the software by counting the lines of the program source code. Some managers tend to love SLOC because it can be automated so it requires very little effort and the effect of it can be visualized. That is exactly what managers like! it is easy and it can be easily inserted into their reports, what could be better than that? It seems just perfect.

Last week a co worker of mine who wanted to remain anonymous, ran into the weirdest problem. She tried to use the “find in files” option in Visual Studio 2005 and even though the searched expression was out there in one of the files, she got the following result: “No files were found to look in. Find was stopped in progress.”

You can close Visual Studio, restart your computer or jump three times on one leg, but the problem remains. This is a very strange and odd bug, but fortunately there is a solution: press…