Network is not applicable in Visual Studio 2015 for Console Application

Question

I've created Console Application in Visual Studio 2015 Professional for simple HttpWebRequest. I'd like to monitor raw HTTP traffic which is sent or received by my Application. As I understand there is Performance Profiler in Visual Studio 2015 for this purpose (Alt+F2).

But Network checkbox is in Not applicable tools group. Is there any way for using this tool for Console Application?

Answer 1

From MSDN, this tool is only used for monitoring HTTP network operations made through the WinRT HttpClient API, and as explicitly stated in this blog post,

Operations made using the old .NET HttpClient API aren’t captured.

So the answer is no.

You can use WireShark or Fiddler for this purpose.