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.

秒表的功能会更好(精度更高)。我还建议下载一款流行的分析器(DotTrace和ANTS是我用得最多的…免费试用的DotTrace功能齐全，不像其他一些唠叨)。

这是正确的方法:

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        Stopwatch stopWatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();

            // some other code

        stopWatch.Stop();

        // this not correct to get full timer resolution
        Console.WriteLine("{0} ms", stopWatch.ElapsedMilliseconds);

        // Correct way to get accurate high precision timing
        Console.WriteLine("{0} ms", stopWatch.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);
    }
}

要了解更多信息，请使用秒表而不是DataTime来获得准确的性能计数器。

@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

不，不是。使用秒表(在系统诊断中)

Stopwatch sw = Stopwatch.StartNew();
PerformWork();
sw.Stop();

Console.WriteLine("Time taken: {0}ms", sw.Elapsed.TotalMilliseconds);

秒表自动检查是否存在高精度计时器。

值得一提的是DateTime。Now通常比DateTime慢一些。UtcNow是因为需要在时区、夏令时等方面做一些工作。

DateTime。UtcNow的分辨率通常为15毫秒。请看John Chapman关于DateTime的博客文章。现在我们来做一个精确的总结。

有趣的琐事:秒表回落到DateTime。UtcNow如果你的硬件不支持高频计数器。你可以通过查看静态字段Stopwatch. ishighresolution来检查Stopwatch是否使用硬件来实现高精度。

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。