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Removing Win 11 Overhead Garbage

Disable Search Suggestions from the Web

1. Open Registry Editor as admin
2. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows.
3. Right-click on the Windows key, select New, then Key, and name it Explorer.
4. Click on the new Explorer key. Right-click in the right pane, select New, then DWORD (32-bit) Value, and name it DisableSearchBoxSuggestions.
5. Double-click DisableSearchBoxSuggestions and set the Value data to 1.
6. Click OK, close the Registry Editor

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namespace TestApp.Models.Settings;

[System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("StyleCop.CSharp.DocumentationRules", "SA1649:File name should match first type name", Justification = "This is small utility.")]
public static class Key
{
  public const string AutoStartApp = "AutoStartApp";
  public const string Ping1Enabled = "ping1-enabled";
  public const string Ping1Host = "ping1-host";
}

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using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Reflection;
using Avalonia.Data.Converters;

namespace Diagnostics.Converters;

public class EnumDescriptionConverter : IValueConverter
{

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Alternative Approach

As an alternative approach, you can create your own custom LogService and wire-in class lookups etc.

The following snippet was created for a Prism.Avalonia application using NLog v5. It is long and adds overhead that must be maintained.

Program.cs

using Avalonia;

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// The following was tested using RolsynPad 20.0

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;

// Example usage
var ini = new IniFile();
ini.Load("config.ini");

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Tools for Debugging and ReverseE

.NET

• dnSpyEx - Unofficial revival of the well known .NET debugger and assembly editor, dnSpy
• CodemerxDecompile - .NET multi-platform decompiler (original makers of JustDecompile)
• de4dot - .NET deobfuscator and unpacker. (archived 2020)
• ILSpy - .NET Decompiler with support for PDB generation, ReadyToRun, Metadata - cross-platform!
• Iced - Blazing fast and correct x86/x64 disassembler, assembler, decoder, encoder for Rust, .NET, Java, Python, Lua

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Build Incrementor

Build Command

dotnet build MyProject.csproj --configuration Release /p:Version=%1

References

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using Microsoft.Maui.Storage;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;

// Based on: https://github.com/soyfrien/ImageCache
namespace MyProjectNamespace;

/// <summary>
/// Use this class to cache images from the Internet.
/// Its functions receive a URI and turn the resource into an ImageSource, byte array, Stream, or Func‹Stream›.

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  <UserControl.Resources>
    <ResourceDictionary>
      <DataTemplate x:Key="FlatDeviceInfo" DataType="models:DeviceInfo">
        <TextBlock>
          <TextBlock.Text>
            <MultiBinding StringFormat="{}{0} - {1}">
              <Binding Path="Address" />
              <Binding Path="DeviceTypeName" />
            </MultiBinding>
          </TextBlock.Text>

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/*
 * Example showing how to share an API route with a Web (view)
 * If the request expects JSON, it shall receive it. Otherwise, display the View.
 * Remember, just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
 */
class ActivityController extends Controller
{
  /**
   * Display a listing of the resource.
   */