Performance features in .NET framework 2.0

Performance considerations have a major impact on user acceptance of an application. In view of the same, measurement of performance is critical to any application. If and when there is a performance problem reported by an end user, a process needs to be followed to diagnose and troubleshoot the problem. Though this process differs from company to company and from developer to developer, troubleshooting a performance problem must involve a step for measuring current performance. .NET framework provides a set of classes, such as PerformanceCounterCategory, PerformanceCounter, CounterCreationData, in System.Diagnostics namespace to facilitate the measurement process. The purpose of PerformanceCounterCategory class is to manage and manipulate PerformanceCounter objects and their categories. The PerformanceCounter class represents a metric that you want to capture from your application.