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title: "Drag 'n Drop Performance Counters!"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/3/13/drag-n-drop-performance-counters.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/3/13/drag-n-drop-performance-counters.html"
published: "2003-03-13T21:13:00"
updated: "2003-03-13T21:13:00"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Well, this is just cool. To use a performance counter, simply open the Server Explorer (CTRL+ALT+S) and open up the Performance counters node in the tree. select the counter you would like to use and... guess what? just…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
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# Drag 'n Drop Performance Counters!

By Roy Osherove March 13, 2003

**Historical article** · Originally published March 13, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Well, this is just cool. To use a performance counter, simply open the Server Explorer (CTRL+ALT+S) and open up the Performance counters node in the tree.

select the counter you would like to use and... guess what? just drag and drop it onto a form or any component and use it like you would use a standard control!

Now **that's** usability enhancement!

Update:

Well well! you get Drag 'n Drop with the **Message Queues** and **Event Logs**  nodes as well !!

Way to go MSFT!


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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