Why am I not getting any values on basic performance counters?

[Snowjim]

Hi, I have a WCF(TCP/WAS) service communicating with a winform application. I have tried to get the following performance counters from this service : ServiceModelService 4.0.0.0 ServiceModelOperation 4.0.0.0 ServiceModelEndPoint 4.0.0.0 I do hoverver never get any values on these counters. This solution : TestProject shows how my solution is setup but this test project do work with performance counters. The question is what would make the performance counters to not record any values? I have invested alot of hours to locate diffrences in this testproject and the real one but havent found anything yet?

[jschell]

As a guess - performance counters require an 'install' step that involves (I believe) adding some specific values to the registry (or something similar) which allows windows to know about the values being collected.