I'm trying out Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Contracts v10.0.18362.2002-prevew on a .NET Framework 4.8 Windows Forms app and can't seem to get past this exception for code like below

private async static void Test()
{
        StorageFolder localFolder = ApplicationData.Current.LocalFolder;
        StorageFile sampleFile = await localFolder.GetFileAsync("dataFile.txt");
        IPropertySet values = ApplicationData.Current.LocalSettings.Values;
        //…
}

I've attempted adding System.Runtime, System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime, System.Runtime.WindowsRuntime.UI.Xaml and downgrading specifically to 4.1.2.0

Exception:

Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime, Version=4.1.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

Hallo everyone, I'm currently playing around with Bluetooth LE and observing this strange behavior when probing a device and calling GattDeviceService.GetCharacteristicsAsync on a service:
System.ArgumentException: 'Value does not fall within the expected range.'

My code:

var serviceId = Guid.Parse("04313ed3-8c7e-4e2e-9771-a415cd2b4623");
var bleDevice = await BluetoothLEDevice.FromBluetoothAddressAsync(228844339811492);
var gatt = await bleDevice.GetGattServicesAsync();
var service = gatt.Services.Single(e => e.Uuid == serviceId);
var accessStatus = await service.RequestAccessAsync(); // Allowed
var openStatus = await service.OpenAsync(GattSharingMode.SharedReadAndWrite); // Success
var characteristics = await service.GetCharacteristicsAsync(); // Crash

Using the Android BLE Scanner app I can clearly see the service and related characteristics:

I can also reproduce this issue when using the Bluetooth LE Explorer Windows app which is using the same API:

I can probe other devices (eg. my Bluetooth mice) without any problem so something must be special here.

I'm using the .NET SDK 6.0.400 with a console application targeting net6.0-windows10.0.19041.0 from within Visual Studio 2022 17.3.1.
I tested it on a Windows 11 (22000.856) notebook with an embedded Intel Bluetooth card and a Windows 10 (19044.1889) desktop using a generic USB Bluetooth dongle.

The readme.md for the project is outdated and doesn't contain information about later versions of .NET and how to consume Modern Windows APIs. This can result in compilation errors, runtime errors, etc. Search engines also point to this Website as a way of calling Modern Windows APIs.

Suggestion: update the readme.md to point to: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs/blob/docs/hub/apps/desktop/modernize/desktop-to-uwp-enhance.md. The documentation available there breaks down how to call Modern Windows APIs from various versions of .NET.

Hi,
We need to use UI automation, and in order to run this code (just a simple example):

static void Main(string[] args)
{
   AutomationElement currentProcessWindow =
      AutomationElement.RootElement.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition)
          .OfType<AutomationElement>()
          .Single(a => a.Current.Name.Contains(Process.GetCurrentProcess().ProcessName));

   Console.WriteLine(currentProcessWindow.Current.ControlType.ProgrammaticName);
}

we need to reference Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Wpf:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <FrameworkReference Include="Microsoft.WindowsDesktop.App.Wpf" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

This requires to install Desktop Runtime on the machine.

Regardless of the reason, is there a way to use UI automation without having to install Desktop Runtime?

Thanks.

From https://github.com/dotnet/windows-desktop/tree/master/docs/win10apis

Requirements
The Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Contracts NuGet packages are designed for .NET Framework 4.6+ or .NET Core 3.0 and only support projects configured using Package Reference as their package management format.

The Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Contracts nuget package supports framework 4.5+ which seems to contradict.

I am using VS 2019 and the BeanTraderClient.Core prodject will not load. Any suggestions?

We got feedback from the VSToolbox show that we should include C++ samples

When users reference the contracts package from .NET Fx projects, the binding redirects are not correctly set in the output config file.

See https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/35034

when running BeanTraderServer (clicking "Start" in Visual Studio), I get:

System.ServiceModel.AddressAccessDeniedException: 'HTTP could not register URL http://+:8080/. Your process does not have access rights to this namespace (see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70353 for details).

when running BeanTraderClient, I get:

System.ArgumentNullException: 'Value cannot be null.
Parameter name: accentName'

Most NuGet packages contain a link to the underlining GitHub repo/Project Website that backs the NuGet. This behavior no longer works for the Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Contracts NuGet.

Issue:
When you click on the Project Website link for Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Contracts. The Project Website link "https://aka.ms/WinSDKProjectURL" on the right-hand side of NuGet for Microsoft.Windows.SDK.Contracts NuGet package redirects back to NuGet.

Expected behavior:
I would expect the link to navigate me to this Website: https://github.com/dotnet/windows-desktop or wherever the Website is now.