How to count how many characters are in a selection?

Question

Is there any way, trick or extension to Visual Studio 2015 that tell me how many characters are in the selection I made, including spaces or null characters?

Observing: I want to count the selection of Visual Studio itself, from its own text editor, I’m not doing a project that counts selections.

Answer 1

I believe that an answer in the OS does more or less what you want. It would be something like this:

using System;
using EnvDTE;
using EnvDTE80; //não sei se precisa de todos eles
using EnvDTE90;
using EnvDTE90a;
using EnvDTE100;
using System.Diagnostics;

public class CountNonWhiteSpaceCharacters {
    void Count() {
        //coloca onde quiser, pode ser no status, abrir outro tipo de controle, etc.
        MsgBox("Count " + DTE.ActiveDocument.Selection().Text.Length.ToString());
    }
}

I put in the Github for future reference.

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