Lets start by creating our Performance counter; in visual studio expand your Server Explorer, expand your computer, right click on Performance Counters and Create a new Category
next your your going to make your Category, give it a name and description.
Now create counters
With your counters ready, let's create application to increment them
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Threading;
using System.Diagnostics;
namespace PerformanceCounterExample
{
class Person
{
static PerformanceCounter TotalPeople =
new PerformanceCounter("PersonCounter", "Person Counter", false);
string FirstName { get; set; }
string LastName { get; set; }
public Person(string
FirstName, string LastName, int rnd)
{
Thread.Sleep(rnd * 100);
this.FirstName = FirstName;
this.LastName = LastName;
TotalPeople.Increment();
}
public override string
ToString()
{
return string.Format("{0} {1}", FirstName,
LastName);
}
}
class Program
{
static string[]
FirstNames = { "Mike", "Marin", "Pavel", "Davor",
"Tomek", "Izabella", "Ivan", "Ted" };
static string[]
LastNames = { "Chooch", "Doe", "Smith", "Johnson",
"Nelly", "Flanders", "Simpson", "Mozbie" };
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Random rand = new Random();
var people = new List<Person>();
for (int i = 0; i
< 1000; i++)
{
string fn = FirstNames[rand.Next(FirstNames.Length)];
string ln = LastNames[rand.Next(LastNames.Length)];
var p = new Person(fn, ln, rand.Next(3));
people.Add(p);
Console.WriteLine(p.ToString());
}
}
}
}
next open up your performance monitor.
with that open you're going to have to add your person counters, In the above screen I've already added mine, but your going to have to hit the Green Plus sign
with the Add Counters screen open, you're going to add the counters you created earlier. next at the bottom of your graph screen make sure you have the counters you created checked off.
with that done run your program and watch your graph
