Visual Studio 2017 Network Diagnostics Tool not applicable

Question

I have a WPF project in Visual Studio Community 2017 and I would like to enable the Network diagnostics debugging tool but it is under the list "Not Applicable Tools" in the Performance profiler... menu, with the following provided reason: Network tool does not support the selected target. The selected target is Startup Project

Is there a way to make my project "applicable" without changing the selected target?

EDIT: I gave up on using the Network Diagnostics tool and ended up using Telerik Fiddler.

Answer 1

At some point in the past, only UWP apps were supported by the Network profiling tool:

The Visual Studio Network diagnostics tool collects data about network operations performed using the Windows.Web.Http API [...]

The Network tool supports only UWP apps. Other platforms are not supported at this time.

-- 11/03/2016

It seems unlikely that other platforms will be supported, since the network tool relies on the fact that these projects make use of the "WinRT HttpClient APIs."

I can tell you that the tool was introduced in VS 2015, and that I'm seeing the same result as you with my project (a console app) in VS2015 Professional.