Stopwatch snippet
A little snippet that I use from time to time when I need information on how long something takes. Type ‘sw’ (without the quotes) and tab-tab.
Installation is easy, just create a file called “sw.snippet” in your %Documents%Visual Studio 2008Code Snippets folder and paste the following in the file. You can use it immediately without restarting Visual Studio.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<CodeSnippets xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/2005/CodeSnippet">
<CodeSnippet Format="1.0.0">
<Header>
<Title>Add Stopwatch code</Title>
<Shortcut>sw</Shortcut>
<Description>Code snippet for adding complete Stopwatch usage and display of elapsed time.</Description>
<Author>Dennis van der Stelt</Author>
<SnippetTypes>
<SnippetType>Expansion</SnippetType>
</SnippetTypes>
</Header>
<Snippet>
<References>
<Reference>
<Assembly>System.Diagnostics</Assembly>
</Reference>
</References>
<Code Language="csharp">
<![CDATA[Stopwatch sw = new Stopwatch();
sw.Start();
sw.Stop();
TimeSpan ts = sw.Elapsed;
string elapsedTime = String.Format("{0:00}:{1:00}:{2:00}.{3:00}",
ts.Hours, ts.Minutes, ts.Seconds,
ts.Milliseconds / 10);
Console.WriteLine(String.Format("nnProcessing time : {0}", elapsedTime));]]>
</Code>
</Snippet>
</CodeSnippet>
</CodeSnippets>
Dennis is an independent consultant and software architect who loves building distributed systems and the challenges they bring. What he learns he tries to share via numerous articles, blogposts, presentations and workshops.
Personally I would change the snippet type to SurroundWith, so you are able to select the code you want to measure and then surround it with the snippet using CTRL+K, S.
You’re right, I’ll have to change it… Thanks!