How to use AverageTimer32 and AverageBase performance counters with System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch?

Question

When I execute the following program and look at the performance counter the results don\'t make sense to me. The average value is zero and the min/max values are ~0.4 when I w

Answer 1

Mark Seemann explained the confusing source of the problem but I would like to provide a little bit of additional information.

If you want to set your AverageTimer32 performance counter from a TimeSpan and not a Stopwatch you can perform the following conversion:

var performanceCounterTicks = timeSpan.Ticks*Stopwatch.Frequency/TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond;
averageTimerCounter.IncrementBy(performanceCounterTicks);
averageTimerCounterBase.Increment();