C#.net NOOB help

[adamhaas98]

HI guys I'm very new to coding and stuff and currently I'm learning to use C#.net in Microsoft visual studio from Barancules Codegasm.

So anyway I'm on his third video and I've followed exactly what he's done. This is to build a system monitor software by the way. For the love of the flying spaghetti monster i can't see what's wrong with this code! It says in the debug it's the line I've highlighted but i can't see anything wrong this is. At this stage all this software is doing is monitoring the cpu load in percentage. Thanks in advance.

 

using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using System.Linq;using System.Text;using System.Threading.Tasks;using System.Diagnostics;using System.Threading; namespace Jarvis{    class Program    {        static void Main(string[] args)        {            //this will pull the cureent cpu load in percentage            PerformanceCounter perfcpucount = new PerformanceCounter();             //infinite while loop            while (true)            {                Thread.Sleep(1000);                Console.WriteLine("CPU Load: {0}", perfcpucount.NextValue());            }        }    }}

Edited April 13, 2015 by colonel_mortis
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[DavidTheWin]

You need to use string.format

[adamhaas98]

Sorry I'm really new to coding and software stuff, where and what does it do?

[DavidTheWin]

Hm actually Console.WriteLine does do formatting like that, so that should be fine.

 

You never actually said what was wrong with the code?

[adamhaas98]

I run it, it crashes immediately. when i run the debug this is the message i get.

 

An unhandled exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in System.dll

 

Additional information: Failed to initialize because CategoryName is missing.

[Bene]

 https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3db3tkkh(v=vs.110).aspx

 

I find out: the default constructor is not enough for read.

[Mo5]

 

HI guys I'm very new to coding and stuff and currently I'm learning to use C#.net in Microsoft visual studio from Barancules Codegasm.

So anyway I'm on his third video and I've followed exactly what he's done. This is to build a system monitor software by the way. For the love of the flying spaghetti monster i can't see what's wrong with this code! It says in the debug it's the line I've highlighted but i can't see anything wrong this is. At this stage all this software is doing is monitoring the cpu load in percentage. Thanks in advance.

 

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

using System.Diagnostics;

using System.Threading;

 

namespace Jarvis

{

    class Program

    {

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            //this will pull the cureent cpu load in percentage

            PerformanceCounter perfcpucount = new PerformanceCounter();

 

            //infinite while loop

            while (true)

            {

                Thread.Sleep(1000);

                Console.WriteLine("CPU Load: {0}", perfcpucount.NextValue());

            }

        }

    }

}

 

You need to add parameters - PerformanceCounter perfCPUCount = new PerformanceCounter("Processor Information", "% Processor Time", "_Total");

[adamhaas98]

Thank you Mo5 you've fixed it, just a little odd as it worked on Jerry's  :huh: