How to trace WCF message size?

Question

I'm fooling around with WCF, and would like to see how many messages I send/receive, and how large these messages are.

I tried activated WCF tracing, and ended up with a real huge trace file, but I found no way to extract the simple message size from this.

There sure must be some way to get this? Maybe I missed some parameters in tracing?

Answer 1

Besides using something like Wireshark (nee ethereal) you could look at something like Fiddler which has other benefits as well. It shows content length for all request/response and allows you to view the content in several ways.