I want to implement a custom Performance Monitor counter that has a period of
1 hour (or any other period other than 1 second). What is the best way
to do this in C# using the built-in functionality in the
System.Diagnotics namespace? I don't want to have to use a Timer in my
own code -- this is what I'm doing now. I want to do it the "right"
way. I know how to create, read and update custom Performance Monitor
counters. What I am asking for help with is how to implement a
rate-based counter (exceptions thrown per hour, for example) where the
interval is NOT 1 second.
Thanks

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Clarification of Question by mountaintop-ga on 12 Aug 2005 15:29 PDT

I am thinking that the solution might be to define a custom
performance monitor TYPE -- something like a derivation of
CountPerTimeInterval32 with a different time interval.

From the MSDN help, here is the formula:

Formula: (N1 - N 0)/ (D 1 - D 0), where the numerator represents the
number of items in a queue and the denominator represents the time
elapsed during the sample interval.

If there were a different PC TYPE defined, where the formula converted
the units of time into 1 hour (or 15 minute, etc.) periods, that might
be my solution... anyone want to provide me an answer?