PerformanceCounterCategoryType in .NET 2.0

[Frank Rizzo]

I am porting an app from net 1.1 to .net 2.0. I have a line of code
(which sets up Performance Counters) that the new framework has obsoleted:

CounterCreationDataCollection CCDC = new CounterCreationDataCollection();

// obsoleted line
PerformanceCounterCategory pcc = PerformanceCounterCategory.Create("My
Category", "My Category Description", CCDC);

The preferred line is now:

pcc = PerformanceCounterCategory.Create("My Category", "My Category
Description",
PerformanceCounterCategoryType.SingleInstance, CCDC);

The difference obviously is the PerformanceCounterCategoryType enum
which supports SingleInstance and MultiInstance. From the sparse
documentation, I am not quite grokking the difference between the 2. I
want my code to work as it did under 1.1 framework. Which enumeration
value should I use?

Thanks.

 

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Frank,

PerformanceCounterCategoryType enum indicates whether the performance
counter can have multiple instances. If you're only creating 1 instance in
your app, like in .NET 1.1, just use
PerformanceCounterCategoryType.SingleInstance. If you're trying to create
multiple instances for this category, please use
PerformanceCounterCategoryType.MultiInstance.

If anything is unclear, please feel free to let me know.

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Frank,

I'd like to know if this issue has been resolved yet. Is there anything
that I can help. I'm still monitoring on it. If you have any questions,
please feel free to post them in the community.

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support
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[Frank Rizzo]

Hi Frank,

I'd like to know if this issue has been resolved yet. Is there anything
that I can help. I'm still monitoring on it. If you have any questions,
please feel free to post them in the community.

It seems to work fine, just like it did in .net 1.1, which is what I
wanted. Thank you. If any issues come up, I'll post them in a new thread.