Can a C# program measure its own CPU usage somehow?

Question

I am working on a background program that will be running for a long time, and I have a external logging program (SmartInspect) that I want to feed with some values periodic

Answer 1

This code project article describes how to use the high performance timer:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/highperformancetimercshar.aspx

You can use it to time the execution of your code.

Here you can find a number of open source C# profilers:

http://csharp-source.net/open-source/profile