calculate method execution time in Visual Studio Express (No profiler available)?

Question

I am using Visual Studio Express Edition and it don't have any profiler or code analyzer.

Code having two delegate performing same task, one by using anonymous method and one by Lambda expression. I want to compare which one is taking less time.

How can I do this in VS express? (not only for delegate for methods also)

If it is Duplicate, please link it.

Thanks

I tried Like This:

        /** Start Date time**/
        DateTime startTime = DateTime.Now;
        /********do the square of a number by using LAMBDA EXPRESSIONS********/
        returnSqr myDel = x => x * x;
        Console.WriteLine("By Lambda Expression Square of {0} is: {1}", a,myDel(a));
        /** Stop Date time**/
        DateTime stopTime = DateTime.Now;
        TimeSpan duration = stopTime - startTime;
        Console.WriteLine("Execution time 1:" + duration.Milliseconds);



        /** Start Date time**/            
        DateTime startTime2 = DateTime.Now;
        /*****do the square of a number by using ANONYMOUS EXPRESSIONS********/
        returnSqr myDel1 = delegate(int x) { return x * x;};
        Console.WriteLine("By Anonymous Method Square of  {0} is: {1}", a, myDel1(a));
        /** Stop Date time**/
        DateTime stopTime2 = DateTime.Now;
        TimeSpan duration2 = stopTime2 - startTime2;
        Console.WriteLine("Execution Time 2:" + duration.Milliseconds);

Output gives:

Execution time 1 : 0
Execution time 2 : 0

Why like this?

Answer 1

You can use the stopwatch class.

Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
// rest of the code
sw.Stop();
Console.WriteLine("Total time (ms): {0}", (long) sw.ElapsedMilliseconds);

Answer 2

use StopWatch class to start a timer before the code is run and stop it after the code has ended. Do this for both code snippets and find out which takes mroe time.

This is not a perfect solution but it helps