我在程序中使用的方式是使用StopWatch类，如下所示。

Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
sw.Start();


// Critical lines of code

long elapsedMs = sw.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds;

如果你想要一些快速和肮脏的东西，我建议使用秒表代替更大程度的精度。

Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
sw.Start();
// Do Work
sw.Stop();

Console.WriteLine("Elapsed time: {0}", sw.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);

或者，如果你需要一些更复杂的东西，你可能应该考虑使用第三方分析器，如ANTS。

使用System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch类。

Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
sw.Start();

// Do some code.

sw.Stop();

// sw.ElapsedMilliseconds = the time your "do some code" took.

@Sean钱伯斯

供您参考，.NET Timer类不是用于诊断的，它以预设的时间间隔生成事件，如下(来自MSDN):

System.Timers.Timer aTimer;
public static void Main()
{
    // Create a timer with a ten second interval.
    aTimer = new System.Timers.Timer(10000);

    // Hook up the Elapsed event for the timer.
    aTimer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(OnTimedEvent);

    // Set the Interval to 2 seconds (2000 milliseconds).
    aTimer.Interval = 2000;
    aTimer.Enabled = true;

    Console.WriteLine("Press the Enter key to exit the program.");
    Console.ReadLine();
}

// Specify what you want to happen when the Elapsed event is 
// raised.
private static void OnTimedEvent(object source, ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
    Console.WriteLine("The Elapsed event was raised at {0}", e.SignalTime);
}

所以这并不能帮助你知道某件事花了多长时间，只是告诉你某段时间已经过去了。

计时器也作为一个控件在System.Windows.Forms…你可以在VS05/VS08的设计器工具箱中找到它

我很少做这种性能检查(我倾向于认为“这个很慢，让它快一点”)，所以我几乎总是这样做。

谷歌确实显示了许多用于性能检查的资源/文章。

许多人提到使用pinvoke来获取性能信息。我研究的很多材料都只提到了使用perfmon..

编辑:

看过秒表的对话..好了!我学到了一些东西:)

这篇文章看起来不错

因为我不太关心精度，所以我最终比较了它们。我正在捕获网络上的大量数据包，我想在我收到每个数据包时放置时间。下面是测试500万次迭代的代码

    int iterations = 5000000;

    // Test using datetime.now
    {
        var date = DateTime.UtcNow.AddHours(DateTime.UtcNow.Second);

        var now = DateTime.UtcNow;

        for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
        {
            if (date == DateTime.Now)
                Console.WriteLine("it is!");
        }
        Console.WriteLine($"Done executing {iterations} iterations using datetime.now. It took {(DateTime.UtcNow - now).TotalSeconds} seconds");
    }

    // Test using datetime.utcnow
    {
        var date = DateTime.UtcNow.AddHours(DateTime.UtcNow.Second);

        var now = DateTime.UtcNow;

        for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
        {
            if (date == DateTime.UtcNow)
                Console.WriteLine("it is!");
        }
        Console.WriteLine($"Done executing {iterations} iterations using datetime.utcnow. It took {(DateTime.UtcNow - now).TotalSeconds} seconds");
    }

    // Test using stopwatch
    {
        Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
        sw.Start();

        var now = DateTime.UtcNow;

        for (int i = 0; i < iterations; i++)
        {
            if (sw.ElapsedTicks == DateTime.Now.Ticks)
                Console.WriteLine("it is!");
        }
        Console.WriteLine($"Done executing {iterations} iterations using stopwatch. It took {(DateTime.UtcNow - now).TotalSeconds} seconds");
    }

输出结果为:

Done executing 5000000 iterations using datetime.now. It took 0.8685502 seconds 
Done executing 5000000 iterations using datetime.utcnow. It took 0.1074324 seconds 
Done executing 5000000 iterations using stopwatch. It took 0.9625021 seconds

总之，DateTime。如果您不太关心精度，UtcNow是最快的。这也支持了这个问题的答案https://stackoverflow.com/a/6986472/637142。