Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET Programmer's Cookbook

Use a Custom Performance Counter

Problem

You want to gauge the performance of an application with a custom businessspecific counter.

Solution

Create the counters using the PerformanceCounterCategory and CounterCreationDataCollection classes. Increment the counters using the PerformanceCounter class.

Discussion

.NET includes performance counters that allow you to monitor the performance of the common language runtime, Microsoft ADO.NET, .NET Remoting, and Microsoft ASP.NET. In addition, you can create your own custom counters using the classes in the System.Diagnostics namespace.

Before using a custom counter, you need to create it. You can create custom counters using the Visual Studio .NET Server Explorer or programmatically in code. You also need ...