XP11: whole suite on net40 — Console + vPOD run on XP SP3 through Win11

The Launcher's XP11 port (8730b9b) now extends to everything: one net40
flavor across Console, vPOD, Contract, and SecureConfig (Newtonsoft.Json
everywhere; the net48/System.Text.Json legs and their #if splits are gone
since nothing consumed them).

Console (net40, single TFM like the Launcher):
- The ~31 BinaryFormatter bitmap blobs in the .resx files became raw
  embedded files under assets/icons/ (extracted byte-faithfully via a
  serialization surrogate — the animated square_throbber.gif survives),
  loaded by Properties.Resources.EmbeddedBitmap/EmbeddedIcon. Reason:
  System.Resources.Extensions' DeserializingResourceReader is net461+
  and cannot load on net40. Strings stay in the .resx.
- IReadOnlyList -> IList in AppRegistry (net45+ interface).

vPOD (net40, single TFM):
- Zip extraction now shares the Launcher's MiniZip.cs (linked source), so
  the diff-test install round-trip exercises it against ZipArchive zips.
- RPC args as JTokens; LaunchApps.json persistence via Newtonsoft;
  Thread.VolatileRead instead of Volatile.Read.

Contract/SecureConfig: net40-only; Client/** (PodManagerConnection) now
ships in the one build. The Launcher package gains
TeslaSecureConfiguration.dll as a dependency of the client half.

Tests: the net48 xunit host loads the net40 assemblies (both CLR4), so
the suite exercises exactly what ships — 106/106 green. Also verified
live: net40 console provisioned, managed, and ran a full RP mission
against net40 vPOD (beacon/passphrase/RSA, 53290 RPC, egg load,
Run/Stop Mission).

Version: 4.11.4.3 across Launcher, Console, and vPOD (vPOD joins the
suite version line; was 1.0.0). Ship the dotNetFx40 redistributable in
Launcher/assets for XP-era pods.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Console/tests/TeslaConsole.DiffTests/AssemblyPaths.cs

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ namespace TeslaConsole.DiffTests
     /// <summary>
     /// Locates the two assemblies under comparison:
     ///   * Original  - original/TeslaConsole.exe  (the lost-source reference baseline)
-    ///   * Recovered - bin/Release/net48/TeslaConsole.exe  (freshly built reconstruction)
+    ///   * Recovered - bin/Release/net40/TeslaConsole.exe  (freshly built reconstruction;
+    ///     net40 since XP11 — loads fine in this net48 test host, both are CLR4)
     /// </summary>
     public static class AssemblyPaths
     {
@@ -39,8 +40,8 @@ namespace TeslaConsole.DiffTests
 
         private static string FindRecoveredExe()
         {
-            string release = Path.Combine(RepoRoot, "bin", "Release", "net48", "TeslaConsole.exe");
-            string debug = Path.Combine(RepoRoot, "bin", "Debug", "net48", "TeslaConsole.exe");
+            string release = Path.Combine(RepoRoot, "bin", "Release", "net40", "TeslaConsole.exe");
+            string debug = Path.Combine(RepoRoot, "bin", "Debug", "net40", "TeslaConsole.exe");
 
             // Test whichever build is freshest, so a stale config never silently wins.
             string best = null;

Console/tests/TeslaConsole.DiffTests/BehavioralEquivalenceTests.cs

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ namespace TeslaConsole.DiffTests
             Assert.Contains("TeslaConsole", _fx.Original.AssemblyFullName);
             Assert.Contains("TeslaConsole", _fx.Recovered.AssemblyFullName);
             Assert.Contains("4.11.3.37076", _fx.Original.AssemblyFullName);
-            Assert.Contains("4.11.4.1", _fx.Recovered.AssemblyFullName);
+            Assert.Contains("4.11.4.3", _fx.Recovered.AssemblyFullName);
         }
 
         // ---- RPStrings.GetTimeString: mm:ss formatting with 0.5s rounding ----

Console/tests/TeslaConsole.DiffTests/PodRpcProtocolTests.cs

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
-using System.Text.Json;
 using Tesla.Net;
 using Xunit;
 
@@ -29,8 +28,8 @@ namespace TeslaConsole.DiffTests
             var req = PodRpc.ReadRequest(ms);
             Assert.Equal("KillApp", req.Method);
             Assert.Equal(2, req.Args.Count);
-            Assert.Equal(Key, req.Args[0].GetGuid());
-            Assert.Equal(4242, req.Args[1].GetInt32());
+            Assert.Equal(Key, req.Args[0].ToObject<Guid>(PodRpc.JsonOptions));
+            Assert.Equal(4242, req.Args[1].ToObject<int>(PodRpc.JsonOptions));
         }
 
         [Fact]
@@ -150,7 +149,7 @@ namespace TeslaConsole.DiffTests
             ms.Position = 0;
             var resp = PodRpc.ReadResponse(ms);
             Assert.Null(resp.Error);
-            return resp.Result.Deserialize<T>(PodRpc.JsonOptions);
+            return resp.Result.ToObject<T>(PodRpc.JsonOptions);
         }
     }
 }

Console/tests/TeslaConsole.DiffTests/README.md

@@ -76,7 +76,9 @@ dotnet test tests/TeslaConsole.DiffTests/TeslaConsole.DiffTests.csproj
 ```
 
 A project reference builds the reconstruction first, and the suite always tests
-the most recently built `bin/{Debug,Release}/net48/TeslaConsole.exe`.
+the most recently built `bin/{Debug,Release}/net40/TeslaConsole.exe` (net40 since
+the XP11 port; the net48 test host loads it fine — both are CLR4, so the whole
+process runs the net40/Newtonsoft stack that ships).
 
 ## Scope / limitations
 

Console/tests/TeslaConsole.DiffTests/TeslaConsole.DiffTests.csproj

@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@
     </ProjectReference>
     <!-- The source-built wire contract (emits TeslaConsoleLaunchLib.dll). Referenced
          directly so WireContractCompatTests can construct Tesla.Net types and compare
-         their BinaryFormatter output against the original vendored DLL. -->
+         their BinaryFormatter output against the original vendored DLL. net40 (like
+         everything under test since XP11); loads fine in this net48 host — both are
+         CLR4 — so the suite exercises the exact Newtonsoft stack that ships. -->
     <ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\Contract\Tesla.Contract.csproj" />
     <!-- The source-built secure-config (emits TeslaSecureConfiguration.dll), for
          SecureConfigCompatTests' byte-identity checks vs the original vendored DLL. -->