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Table of content: I. C# Custom Performance Counters - Introduction II. C# Custom Performance Counters - First Performance Counter 1. Creating a custom Performance Counters and Performance counters category. You can create your own Performance category and Performance counters. To achieve this goal you can use Visual Studio tools, or .NET System.Diagnostics objects. In this post I’ll describe counters and category creation in a code using using System.Diagnostics; First of all you need to make a counters collection: CounterCreationDataCollection collection = new CounterCreationDataCollection(); Then you need to create performance counter CounterCreationData counter = new CounterCreationData(); counter.CounterName = "CountsPerSecond"; counter.CounterHelp = "CountsPerSecond"; counter.CounterType = PerformanceCounterType.RateOfCountsPerSecond32); collection.Add(counter); And place it into the category. As the category type you can use SingleInstance and M...

Table of content: I. C# Custom Performance Counters - Introduction II. C# Custom Performance Counters - First Performance Counter 1. Introduction There is a moment in software engineer life when it is time to check application performance. At this certain point you will ask yourself “How can I do it?”. Answer is not simple because you can do it in a very different way. You can of course find any 3 rd party application which will measure some things for you. You can make some kind of log file and insert some performance data to it, or you can use .NET System.Diagnostics namespace. In this article I’ll focus on System.Diagnostics. I’m not saying it is the best approach, I’ll just describe some elements of it and you can decide if it suits your needs or not. 2. Where I can find Performance counters in Windows. In Windows you can find some predefined performance counters. Just open Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Performance There you can find some predefined count...