[2005] best way to measure time?

Hi!

I am about to build my very first Winforms application. I have a lot of experience in ASP 2.0. And I'm curious which is the best way to measure the time it takes to complete different operstions, like render the mainform and all child controls, database operations etc etc... In asp.net I have the handy trace tool. But how do I do this in a generic fashion in vs2005 winforms?


/Henrik

VB Code:

Dim seconds as integer
Dim minutes as Integer
Dim hours as integer
 
   Private Sub timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles timer1.Tick
 
    seconds = seconds + 1
 
       If seconds = 60 Then
            minutes = minutes + 1
            seconds = 0
               If minutes = 60 Then
                   hours = hours + 1
               End If 
       End If
 
        Label1.Text = hours & ":" & minutes & ":" & seconds

Just make a timer, and set the interval to 1000. Also enable it at the start of your program, if need be.

Do a search on the net, there are lots of posts about monitoring application performance. You may want to look into using performance counters:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/w8f5kw2e.aspx

I don't think using a timer would really give you what you are looking for.

Well I am not too sure what the 2005 Express versions have, but in the full Team Suite version you have options under Tools to add a Performance Session, which then allows you to do several things in order to evaluate how your app is performing...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/te..._profiler.aspx

Lots of other performance analysis tools come with it was well, but I don't believe you would get any of this in the basic Express versions.

If you're just wanting to measure time between operations, then its just a matter of setting a start time and end time in between the code you wish to time, and then subtract the two to get a timespan result of the difference.