Visual Studio metrics

How much time do you spend in Visual Studio? Get the WakaTime plugin and track your programming in real-time.

INSTALL THE PLUGIN FOR VISUAL STUDIO
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Measure Your Coding

The WakaTime plugin for Visual Studio gives you real-time metrics per project, file, branch, commit, feature, operating system, language, etc.

Gain Insights

Spend more time in JavaScript or Python? Your personal dashboard shows the metrics you care about.

Improve Your Productivity

Compete with your friends on private leaderboards, improve your daily coding average, and check your rank against other WakaTime users.

Used by Top Companies

WakaTime gives us insight into our development process and increases our impact as a team.
Scott Milliken
Scott Milliken
CEO of Mixrank
I use WakaTime to measure and improve my focus. Reading Deep Work by Cal Newport made me realize the importance of deep sustained focus. WakaTime seamlessly helps me achieve this goal, and I strongly recommend it.
Kirubakaran
Kirubakaran
Software consultant
I love the insight WakaTime gives me on my projects. With WakaTime I know exactly where my time went down to the file.
TJ Holowaychuk
TJ Holowaychuk
Creator of Express.js

Open Source

We value Open Source and make a point to release all our plugins on GitHub under a BSD License.

Install the plugin

  1. Inside Visual Studio, navigate to Tools → Extensions…

  2. Click the Online category at the left, then search for wakatime.

  3. Click the Download button, then click Install.

  4. Click the Restart Now button.

  5. Enter your API Key, then press enter.

  6. Use Visual Studio like you normally do and your coding activity will be displayed on your WakaTime Dashboard.

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