One way is to retrieve the value of the performance counters “.NET CLR Networking/Bytes Received” and “.NET CLR Networking/Bytes Sent” for your application:
PerformanceCounter bytesSentPerformanceCounter= new PerformanceCounter();
bytesSentPerformanceCounter.CategoryName = ".NET CLR Networking";
bytesSentPerformanceCounter.CounterName = "Bytes Sent";
bytesSentPerformanceCounter.InstanceName = GetInstanceName();
bytesSentPerformanceCounter.ReadOnly = true;
float bytesSent = bytesSentPerformanceCounter.NextValue();
//....
private static string GetInstanceName()
{
// Used Reflector to find the correct formatting:
string assemblyName = GetAssemblyName();
if ((assemblyName == null) || (assemblyName.Length == 0))
{
assemblyName = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.FriendlyName;
}
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(assemblyName);
for (int i = 0; i < builder.Length; i++)
{
switch (builder[i])
{
case "https://stackoverflow.com/":
case '\\':
case '#':
builder[i] = '_';
break;
case '(':
builder[i] = '[';
break;
case ')':
builder[i] = ']';
break;
}
}
return string.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture,
"{0}[{1}]",
builder.ToString(),
Process.GetCurrentProcess().Id);
}
private static string GetAssemblyName()
{
string str = null;
Assembly entryAssembly = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly();
if (entryAssembly != null)
{
AssemblyName name = entryAssembly.GetName();
if (name != null)
{
str = name.Name;
}
}
return str;
}
Note that the performance-counters aren’t created until the first time you use the relevant network libraries (you will get InvalidOperation : Instance ‘XXX’ does not exist in the specified Category) and that you need to insert
<configuration>
<system.net>
<settings>
<performanceCounters enabled="true" />
</settings>
</system.net>
</configuration>
in your app.config.
For a full sample download NetworkTraffic.cs and NetworkTraffic.exe.config.