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

I don't remember from where I copied it, but this code works well for me:

        public class QueryPerfCounter
    {
        [DllImport("KERNEL32")]
        private static extern bool QueryPerformanceCounter(out long lpPerformanceCount);
        [DllImport("Kernel32.dll")]
        private static extern bool QueryPerformanceFrequency(out long lpFrequency);
    private long start;
    private long stop;
    private long frequency;
    double multiplier = 1.0e6;  // usecs / sec

    public QueryPerfCounter()
    {
        if (QueryPerformanceFrequency(out frequency) == false)
        {
            // Frequency not supported
            throw new Win32Exception();
        }
    }

    public void Start()
    {
        QueryPerformanceCounter(out start);
    }

    public void Stop()
    {
        QueryPerformanceCounter(out stop);
    }

    public double Duration(int iterations)
    {
        return ((((stop - start) * multiplier) / frequency) / iterations);
    }
}