Visual Studio Application Insights toolbar not showing events

Question

I'm new to Application Insights and testing the concept of sending custom data in a console application. I managed to see custom events in the search bar in the Azure portal, great.

My problem is in some of the tutorials I went through, there's a toolbar in Visual Studio that shows the number of events eg Application Insights (21) but mine just has Application Insights without a number next to it and clicking on it shows 0 events

My code is uber-simple:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    TelemetryConfiguration.Active.InstrumentationKey = "APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_GUID";

    TelemetryClient TC = new TelemetryClient();
    TC.TrackEvent("My event");
    TC.Flush();
}

I'm got Visual Studio 2015. Should I install something to make this work?

Answer 1

You likely need to add the ApplicationInsights.config file to your project.

Make sure Build Action is Content and Output Directory is Copy if newer / Copy always so that it copies file to output directory on build

Also, make sure you at least have the <ApplicationInsights ... root tag in your config file. Something like this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <ApplicationInsights xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ApplicationInsights/2013/Settings">
    </ApplicationInsights>