execution time calculation

Question

How to you calculate Execution time of your C#, Windows Application.

Are there any industry recognized methods?

Answer 1

System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().TotalProcessorTime - the processor time used by the process (user mode and kernel mode). Use UserProcessorTime and PrivilegedProcessorTime for separate values.

System.Diagnostics.Process.GetCurrentProcess().StartTime - yields in combination with DateTime.Now the running time of the process.

Use System.Diagnostics.StopWatch to profile isolated tasks.

For advanced tasks you can use System.Diagnostics.PerformanceCounter.

Answer 2

You might also be interested in PostSharp (http://www.postsharp.org/). You can have it run code when any method starts or stops.