How to get ticks from QueryPerformanceCounter in C#?

Question

I need to replace Stopwatch to avoid using getters for its properties. I am going to implement it using QueryPerformanceCounter. I only need ticks nothing e

Answer 1

[DllImport("Kernel32.dll")]
private static extern bool QueryPerformanceCounter(out long lpPerformanceCount);

[DllImport("Kernel32.dll")]
private static extern bool QueryPerformanceFrequency(out long lpFrequency);

Taken from http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2635/High-Performance-Timer-in-C

Old but it should still work

EDIT: The internals of StopWatch actually use QueryPerformanceCounter, so using the managed code should provide identical results, with better compatibility.