How to measure code performance in .NET?

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The Stopwatch class, available since .NET 2.0, is the best way to go for this. It is a very high performance counter accurate to fractions of a millisecond.
Take a look at the MSDN documentation, which is pretty clear.

EDIT: As previously suggested, it is also advisable to run your code a number of times in order to get a reasonable average time.

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