Can VS tell you how long you program has been running between breakpoints?

Question

Basically I'm wondering if I can save myself updating my code with System.Diagnostics.StopWatch, and somehow just get away with using the debugging features of VS (2008 in particular)

I.e. if I put a breakpoint before and after my method call, and then 'run' it. Is there anyway to tell how long VS was running before it stopped again? (Other than staying at the station and looking at the computer's clock of course)

If the answer is yes, please explain how.

Answer 1

You can use DateTime.Ticks. Rather than setting a breakpoint save the DateTime.Ticks component in a temp variable. At the point of second break point use another variable to store the DateTime.Ticks component.

Now time elapsed is Variable2 - Variable1.

There are 10,000 ticks in a millisecond.

Answer 2

As far as I know, no such a feature is built into Visual Studio.

Rather try a profiler. EQATEC Profiler is free and does exactly what you want i.e. time spent in each method and it's really easy to use....

Answer 3

I got all excited about replying to this post, until I actually tried it and realized that .NET projects don't support the @CLK pseudoregister trick! This sucks.