How to get Performance categories/counters without using category/counter names

[Christopher Attard]

Hi,

I want to make use of the Performance Counter "Connections active"
which falls under the "TCP" Performance object. I'm using the following code
(in C#) to get the performance counter:

PerformanceCounter perfCounter = new
PerformanceCounter("TCP","Connections Active");

Now I know I have to use this code on a non-English Windows box and I
know that some performance categories/counters have different counter names
(non-english names). Is there a way to obtain a performance counter in .NET
w/o specifying the category/counter name explicitly (for.eg. specifying a
performance counter ID instead)?
Thanks,
Chris