Code Metrics lets you compute a set of static metrics for your code. It is integrated fully with the existing development browsers and provides an ideal environment for integrating software metrics directly into the development process.

Code Metrics provides an extensible set of metrics. A metric is a specific type of measure that executes over code elements and returns a numerical result. A metric has an upper and a lower threshold. Results between these thresholds are in range; other results are out of range and need to be examined in more detail. Out-of-range results do not necessarily indicate a problem. However, it is important to understand why results are out of range.