Windows Firewall: Logging/Notifying on Outgoing Request Attempts
I was trouble shooting an app I was developing a while back and ran into a brick wall. Essentially, I was having issues with an "Entity framework" being used when telecommuting. Looks like there was a connection being dropped thereby impacting an event handler for an asynch call the app was making. Well, I needed to find out what the problem was and the first thing to check was connectivity issues. My initial inclination was a FIREWALL setting or some subnetting stuff. In *nix environments, it is pretty easy to log and view inbound/outbound connections but under Windows, you need to be a C++ or C# specialist to write an under the hood HOOK or interface to do that. Anyway, I thought there should be a way within Window FireWall app to do this, but the Devil is in the details - no documentation or better still - no pointer to any documentation on how to do this. OK - no documentation anywhere but there is "Google" - so, nothing to worry about. I googled a phrase ...