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[0] Performance Counters/Timers Shootout! [2] Click Here [3] Click Here [1] 
This is a pretty extensive example of how to use the Counters/Timers that are available to the Windows programmer. It uses the 3x most popular timers and allows you to decide which would fit your needs based on resolution, accuracy, and overhead. This example uses the 'Performance Counter', 'timeGetTime', and the 'TickCount' timers.
Visual Basic Code Source - Visual Basic.NET Examples 02/03/05/08
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