Application Insights Desktop application

Question

Mine is a desktop application with several tabs, pulling data from web service calls. As Application Insights does not  inherently support for desktop applications, i am trying to find the steps needed to be able to directly call APIs to take advantage of Application Insights. Any idea or direction will be helpful. Thanks

Answer 1

take a look at using the AI Server side SDK or Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.Telemetry.Services

you can pass in the Application Insights Id into the start method:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.applicationinsights.telemetry.services.serveranalytics.start.aspx

thanks,

vlad

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Answer 2

Using this API we can LogEvents using ServerAnalytics.BeginRequest().LogEvent. 

However this api does not have any methods to log an event like LogPageView. how to log a PageViewEvent using that api?

Web version allows through javascrip like LogPageView("a/b/c") or windows store provides this like ClientAnalyticsChannel.Default.LogPageView("a/b/c"). 

Answer 3

when using the server side SDK you really have 2 options. LogEvent or TimedEvent.

thanks,

vlad

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Answer 4

Mine is a desktop application with several tabs, pulling data from web service calls. As Application Insights does not  inherently support for desktop applications, i am trying to find the steps needed to be able to directly call APIs to take advantage of Application Insights. Any idea or direction will be helpful. Thanks

I'm actively developing a solution for this. It's in beta, but available on nuget now.

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Answer 5

I would recommend you use our "Core" SDK that doesn't do auto-collection, but gives you the ability to programatically collect data:

http://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.ApplicationInsights/

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Jakub Oleksy | Developer | Visual Studio Online