Tag: windows

Flutter 3.47 makes Impeller the default renderer on Windows and Linux. What actually changes underneath (it is still OpenGL ES, not Vulkan), how to A/B test against Skia on a built binary, a per-machine kill switch for release builds, and why your golden tests will not notice.

Use SystemEvents.SessionSwitch in a desktop or console app, override OnSessionChange in a Windows service, or hook WM_WTSSESSION_CHANGE yourself. Covers .NET 10 code for all three, the hidden '.NET System Events' thread, why services see logon but desktop apps do not, out-of-order notifications, and how to query the current lock state with WTSQuerySessionInformation.

Flutter 3.47.0 stable flips desktop apps from Skia to Impeller without touching a line of your runner code. Here is what moves, how to opt out on each platform, and why that opt-out is temporary.

Two different things get called a modal window in .NET MAUI 11. PushModalAsync gives you a modal page on every platform. A real OS window that disables its owner has no MAUI API at all, so here is the WinUI OverlappedPresenter.IsModal plus Win32 owner-handle interop that actually works on Windows, and what to do on Mac Catalyst instead.

Folder names starting with t, b, n, r or u make a Windows path parse cleanly as JSON and still resolve wrong. Use forward slashes or double every backslash.

After an MSIX update, Claude Desktop on Windows reads claude_desktop_config.json from a virtualized path while Edit Config opens the old %APPDATA% one. Edit the file under AppData\Local\Packages\Claude_pzs8sxrjxfjjc and restart.

Why Claude Code shows 'MCP server disconnected' or 'Connection closed' for a working MCP server when launched from WSL2. Covers stdio spawning across the Windows/Linux boundary, npx and node ENOENT, mirrored networking for HTTP servers, VMMem reaping, and how to diagnose the right one with claude --debug.

The certificate's private key lives in a separate Windows key file the current process identity cannot read. Grant ACL on the key, load the PFX with MachineKeySet, or use EphemeralKeySet.

End-to-end guide to packaging a .NET MAUI 11 Windows app as an MSIX, bundling x64/x86/ARM64 into a .msixupload, and submitting through Partner Center: identity reservation, Package.appxmanifest, dotnet publish flags, MakeAppx bundling, and the Store-trusted certificate handoff.

Strip Android and iOS from a .NET MAUI 11 project so it ships Windows and Mac Catalyst only: the csproj edits, the workload commands, and the multi-targeting that keeps your code clean.