Hidden VS 2005 Feature

Update: Björn wrote in to slap me straight; it’s lines of text in the output window. Too bad, it would have been a nice subtlety…

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Today I went to build one of our solutions and my eyes were drawn to the right side of the status bar in Visual Studio 2005. You know, the section that has “Ln”, “Col”, “Ch”, and whether or not insert mode is on. Well, usually the “Ln” element tells you what line of code you are on. If you double click on it, you get a little dialog that lets you go to the particular line (also CTRL+G)…

Anyway, tangent. What I noticed today is that the line counter kicks into a different mode when you’re building a solution or project it counts up! Now I’m not sure if that’s lines of source code, lines of generated IL, or what, but, hey, potentially a fun little attention to detail.

Anyone know what this number signifies?