December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
9h 6m
English
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Summary
Monitoring performance counters from within VB .NET is a useful function because it allows you to monitor almost any aspect of your current computer, or any other machine on your network, provided you have the appropriate access rights.
The fact that .NET makes it easy to create your own performance counters and programmatically access them brings a new level of functionality to VB developers. Your applications can now create their own categories within the Performance Monitor tool, familiar to most administrators and many power users. You can supply performance counters for a variety of functions within your application, allow easy monitoring through a standard Microsoft tool.
More importantly, you have an easy way to monitor how well ...