PerformanceCounterCategory.ReadCategory Method

public InstanceDataCollectionCollection ReadCategory ()

public InstanceDataCollectionCollection ReadCategory ()

public function ReadCategory () : InstanceDataCollectionCollection

Return Value

You must set the CategoryName property before you call ReadCategory.

Reading the entire category at once can be as efficient as reading a single counter because of the way that the system provides the data.

The following code example creates a PerformanceCounterCategory for a specified PerformanceCounterCategory name. It then uses ReadCategory to return an InstanceDataCollectionCollection that contains instance data for all the instances of the PerformanceCounter objects within the PerformanceCounterCategory.

' Process the InstanceDataCollectionCollection for this category.
Dim pcc As New PerformanceCounterCategory(categoryName)
Dim idColCol As InstanceDataCollectionCollection = pcc.ReadCategory()
Dim idColArray(idColCol.Count - 1) As InstanceDataCollection

Console.WriteLine("InstanceDataCollectionCollection for ""{0}"" " & _
    "has {1} elements.", categoryName, idColCol.Count)

Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition

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