C# – custom performance counter in c# / perfmon

Hi I am trying to to create a custom performance counter for use in perfmon. The following code works pretty well, however I have one problem..

With this solution I have a timer updating the value of the performance counter, however I would like to not have to run this executable to get the data I need. That is I would like to just be able to install the counter as a one time thing and then have perfmon query for the data (as it does with all the pre-installed counters).

How can I achieve this?

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Net.NetworkInformation;

namespace PerfCounter
{
class PerfCounter
{
    private const String categoryName = "Custom category";
    private const String counterName = "Total bytes received";
    private const String categoryHelp = "A category for custom performance counters";
    private const String counterHelp = "Total bytes received on network interface";
    private const String lanName = "Local Area Connection"; // change this to match your network connection
    private const int sampleRateInMillis = 1000;
    private const int numberofSamples = 100;

    private static NetworkInterface lan = null;
    private static PerformanceCounter perfCounter;

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        setupLAN();
        setupCategory();
        createCounters();
        updatePerfCounters();
    }

    private static void setupCategory()
    {
        if (!PerformanceCounterCategory.Exists(categoryName))
        {
            CounterCreationDataCollection counterCreationDataCollection = new CounterCreationDataCollection();
            CounterCreationData totalBytesReceived = new CounterCreationData();
            totalBytesReceived.CounterType = PerformanceCounterType.NumberOfItems64;
            totalBytesReceived.CounterName = counterName;
            counterCreationDataCollection.Add(totalBytesReceived);
            PerformanceCounterCategory.Create(categoryName, categoryHelp, PerformanceCounterCategoryType.MultiInstance, counterCreationDataCollection);
        }
        else
            Console.WriteLine("Category {0} exists", categoryName);
    }

    private static void createCounters() {
        perfCounter = new PerformanceCounter(categoryName, counterName, false);
        perfCounter.RawValue = getTotalBytesReceived();
    }

    private static long getTotalBytesReceived()
    {
        return lan.GetIPv4Statistics().BytesReceived;
    }

    private static void setupLAN()
    {
        NetworkInterface[] interfaces = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces();
        foreach (NetworkInterface networkInterface in interfaces)
        {
            if (networkInterface.Name.Equals(lanName))
                lan = networkInterface;
        }
    }
    private static void updatePerfCounters()
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < numberofSamples; i++)
        {
            perfCounter.RawValue = getTotalBytesReceived();
            Console.WriteLine("perfCounter.RawValue = {0}", perfCounter.RawValue);
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(sampleRateInMillis);
        }
    }
}

}