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A simple benchmarking method to capture the start and end time of an action.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Collections.Concurrent;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Text;

class Program
{
    public static void TimeIt(Action action)
    {
        Stopwatch timer = Stopwatch.StartNew();
        action();
        timer.Stop();
        Console.WriteLine("{0} took {1}", action.Method.Name, timer.Elapsed);
    }

    public static void DoSomething()
    {
        Thread.Sleep(3000);
    }

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        TimeIt(DoSomething);
    }
}