📚 Estimated reading time: 22 seconds

Target

Parsing Visual Studio Solution

Starts by loading the solution file (.sln) and parses its projects (.vcxproj) location and names using regex, for example:

Project("{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}") = "ExampleCLI", "projects\ExampleCLI.vcxproj", "{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}"
EndProject
Project("{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}") = "ExampleLib", "projects\ExampleLIB.vcxproj", "{XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX}"
EndProject
...

will result in ExampleCLI and ExampleLib data and then proceeds to parse its project files

Parsing Visual Studio Project

Starts by loading each given project file (vcxproj) and parses its modules (.cpp) and headers (.h) using regex, for example:

  <ItemGroup>
    <ClInclude Include="..\source\ExampleCLI\CLI.h"/>
    <ClInclude Include="..\source\ExampleCLI\Menu.h"/>
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <ClCompile Include="..\source\ExampleCLI\CLI.cpp"/>
    <ClCompile Include="..\source\ExampleCLI\Menu.cpp"/>
  </ItemGroup>
  ...

will result in the files array and then proceeds to parse each module:

..\source\ExampleCLI\CLI.cpp
..\source\ExampleCLI\Menu.cpp
..\source\ExampleCLI\CLI.h
..\source\ExampleCLI\Menu.h