Benchmarking in C#

Benchmarking.cs

// Source: http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/SpeedTestWithStopwatch_2.aspx
// Use it to compare things like da.Fills vs iterating over an OleDbDataReader.

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
 
namespace StopWatchExample
{
    class Example
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Stopwatch timer = new Stopwatch();
            long total = 0;
 
            timer.Start();          // Start the timer
 
            for (int i=1;i<=1000000;i++)
            {
                total += i;
            }
                 
            timer.Stop();           // Stop the timer
             
            decimal micro = (decimal)timer.Elapsed.Ticks / 10M; // 10,000 microseconds in 1 millisecond
            Console.WriteLine("Execution time was {0:F1} microseconds.", micro);
        }
    }
}