The Stopwatch class provides a set of methods and properties that you can use to accurately measure elapsed time. Although its not a complete profiling solution it is very useful for things like quickly measuring code execution time.

A Stopwatch instance can measure elapsed time for one interval, or the total of elapsed time across multiple intervals.

Click the link above to download Visual Basic source code in a Visual Studio 2005 solution which demonstrates how to use the Stopwatch class to measure execution time for two methods.

For more information visit the Stopwatch Class article on Microsoft's MSDN2 web site.

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