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Unable to get Application Insights to show debugging telemetry

I am a total noob with Application Insights, and sadly for a whole day of trying I have been unable to get it working at all. I tried with the following code:
this.telemetryClient = new TelemetryClient(TelemetryConfiguration.CreateDefault());
this.telemetryClient.TrackTrace($"Test", Microsoft.ApplicationInsights.DataContracts.SeverityLevel.Warning);
But when I go to the application insights window and show all telemetry from the current debugging session there is nothing logged. One user said an ApplicationInsights.config file is missing (and that an empty one would do fine for debugging), I created one but it changed nothing.
Then I tried the simplest console app I could find - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/console . I don't have an instrumentation key, and from the hundreds of forums I read today, if you leave it blank it should still appear in the debugging telemetry. Alas, still nothing in Application Insights.
How can I get it working? I just want to see a single Trace message in the Visual Studio Application Insights window when queried for "debugging telemetry".

I used to work on this stuff and the way it generally works, the extension tries to figure out if it should watch for debug output, and if it doesn't recognize the project type, we do nothing (to avoid doign work in the debugger when we don't need to). in this case, console apps aren't a "known" supported project type.
IIRC, to get debug output I believe you need to do 2 things, of which you've done 1:
1) add an ApplicationInsights.config file at the root of that project
2) add an application insight resource id to to the csproj:
<ApplicationInsightsResourceId>/subscriptions/abc</ApplicationInsightsResourceId>
i don't think the resource id even needs to be valid, but if it does even better, because then other things can light up, like exceptions codelens, various links to the portal/etc.
you migth only need to do #2?
i think that if you do the above and restart vs/reload the solution, you should see the debugger integration try to do work when the debugger starts. (it used to!)

Observing a question mark sign (?) on every file of a c# project after i reload the project [duplicate]

I often get blue question marks on files in my VS2012 Solution Explorer when opening a solution bound to Perforce through P4VS.
Looks like something is having trouble to "synchronize" with the depot/workspace/whatnot. Hitting "Refresh View" always solves the issue but I'm growing tired on doing this everyday:
This is my VS version:
Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2012
Version 11.0.61030.00 Update 4
And P4VS:
2014.1.85.4506
This is persistent across P4VS versions for a few months now, and seems to be affecting sometimes individual files, sometimes entire projects, with no apparent pattern.
How can I diagnose what's going wrong, be it a server issue, a VS issue, a workspace issue?... The Perforce Source Control output shows nothing special.
Actually it's not entire folders, it's entire projects. It appears that even if refreshing a project "fixes" the issue for one run, re-opening the solution brings it back. Whereas I think that for individual files, refreshing them solves the issue once and for all. I'll play with it a bit more to confirm that.

To help diagnose what is going wrong you should probably turn on logging, and check the preferences that will show everything in the output window. For the P4VS log, go to:
Tools- > Options -> Source Control -> Perforce - Logging
(This is not the same thing as the Visual Studio Activity log.)
There could be a possibility that you are getting disconnected and refresh reconnects you. I am not sure if you have your connection set to use solution-specific settings, since you did not mention the connection dialog coming up.

This "solved" the issue for me, at least for the entire projects that went blue-question-marked:
1) Tools > Options
2) Source Control
3) Perforce - General
4) Tick the option "Treat Solution/Project as directory when
selected"
Not sure why but that's one less annoyance for me every day. Thanks to Perforce support for suggesting that.

The file is probably not marked for version control. I noticed this icon in one file and opened Perforce to check. For whatever reason, this file was not marked for add in Perforce. After marking the file for add and submitting, the blue question mark went away.

Updating a WCF .map file service reference

Working on a system and need to update a WCF service. The issue I am having is that the service file is a .map file. Using Visual Studio I would have assumed that I could just right click it from solution explorer and update the service from there, but there is no such option.
The .map file itself is an xml containing the Service endpoints and what not. It is also grouped with (could be a plugin "VScommands" that did this grouping) a .cs file of the same name containing the auto-generated code to use the service.
I'm unsure what other information I should provide but if someone could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated.

So to get around this issue I had to manually enter in the inforamtion I needed. Did this by using the svcutil.exe tool provided by microsoft.

Real late update, decided to just remove the entire service reference and re-add it.

EntityModel with Ideablade giving problems on server

Problem
When I test my project on live environment, it works perfect. All connections are properly made and both edmx will work properly.
However, when I publish it to our webserver, one of the edmx files will return a "The remote server returned error: Not Found"
(see picture)
Information
We are using a silverlight 5 project with IdeaBlade v6.1.7.0, Caliburn.Micro v1.3.1.0 and MefContrib.Silverlight v1.1.0.0
We have put a seperate Class Library with our edmx files in there.
We have 2 edmx files. One for normal data and one for localization.
Currently I have found out that the EDMX for StaticContent does not work! it will always return the error shown in the image above.
But when I test it on my local machine things work perfectly.
I am looking for anyone that can help me in anyway, if more information is needed; feel free to ask.
List of things I've already tried
I've tried to re-add the staticcontent edmx.
I've tried to combine them but this resulted in a lot more errors and difficulties.
I've tried to set the staticcontent edmx datasource key to the same as the other edmx
All custom dll's are set to "Copy Local = true"

You'll get the NotFound error on a client when it can't communicate with the EntityServer. This generally doesn't have anything to do with the EDMX itself, unless you're using data source extensions with each model.
Unfortunately, there are many reasons why a client won't be able to communicate with the server. You can first check if the service is running by navigating to its service page, as described here. If there's a problem with the service you'll see errors shown on this page.
Also see this page for information on deployment steps, to see if you've got everything needed.

Windows service won't install: The specified service already exists

I'm writing a small service in C# and I've installed it and uninstalled it a couple of times and all of a sudden it won't install again. I tried to uninstall it and it says there is nothing to uninstall, but when I install it again I get the following message:
Error 1001: The specified service already exists
Now, I've tried the following solutions:
Close the service manager (as an open service manager may hold a
handle to it)
Tried to find it with SC QUERY and delete is using SC DELETE
(according to
Service already exists (when it clearly doesn't))
Tried to remove it in regedit (doesn't exist there)
I've correctly added the project output to Custom Actions (install,
commit, rollback, uninstall)
Restarted the computer (!)
I'm running out of ideas. There is absolutely no proof that the service is installed on my computer and even though thousands of developers seems to have had this problem (and I've even had it myself previously) I've never heard of a situation where none of the standard solutions actually works.
What could I have missed?
EDIT
I've been into regedit and I tried again to find my service, but this time I exported the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ section and searched it. I can find my service in the dump under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MyService
But then I go there in the regedit view, it's not there. Any suggestions? How did I screw that up :?
RE-EDIT
Disregard edit, the service only shows in regedit while the install i showing the error message, but that's event weirder, the service is installed, then breaks and rollbacks...

As a temporary solution, you can change the name of the service slightly ( e.g. add or remove one or two chars from the service_name) but keep the display_name the same.

I would suggest looking and Sysinternals Process Monitor activity and going backwards trying to find what happened before the error was reported. You might be able to see that for example a certain reg key was accessed.

I had a similar issue to this (the service was in stopped state and then deleted by an overzealous disk space tidier) and to solve it I copied my new service to the same location as marked in the "Path to Executable" box, and then started the service.
No issues so far.