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.
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Merge TeslaLauncherService (Session 0) + TeslaLauncherAgent (tray) into one
userland TeslaLauncher.exe. The split existed only to work around Vista+
Session 0 isolation; running everything in the auto-logged-in admin session
needs no service, no named pipe, and no flat<->wire conversion layer. The
original Elsewhen software was likewise a single binary.
net40 is the newest framework XP SP3 can install, and net40 assemblies load
in-place on the 4.8 runtime in Win10/11 -- one exe covers both.
- Contract: multi-target net48;net40. The net40 leg of PodRpcProtocol uses
Newtonsoft.Json (STJ has no net40 target); JSON is shape-identical on the
wire, and the request reader keeps date strings raw so Ping echoes
byte-identically. Console keeps the untouched net48/STJ leg.
- MiniZip.cs: central-directory ZIP extractor (stored/deflate/ZIP64) since
net40 has no ZipFile; zip-slip guarded.
- SecureConfig: RSACryptoServiceProvider instead of RSA.Create (net46+),
no leaveOpen BinaryWriter/Reader, struct instead of ValueTuple, and no
SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault on the passcode thread (the merged app
already has a form). netsh "interface ip" syntax was already XP-correct.
- Volume: nircmd -> CoreAudio (Vista+) -> winmm waveOutSetVolume (XP).
- Paths: CommonApplicationData resolved per-OS (XP has no C:\ProgramData);
launcher log moved next to the key/config in the data dir.
- install.bat: dual-OS (cacls/icacls, netsh firewall/advfirewall, dism and
UAC/notification steps skipped on XP, .NET 4.0 redist check, XP DHCP reset
via netsh); no service registration -- HKLM Run key + auto-login on both;
RegisterApplicationRestart supplies crash-restart on Vista+.
- Bench switches: /skipconfig, /port:NNNN.
Verified: Console + diff suite (103 tests) still green on the net48 leg;
E2E smoke test drove the net40 launcher over real TCP with the Console's own
PodManagerConnection (STJ client vs Newtonsoft server) -- Ping echo, volume,
app registry, launch/kill/watch, InstallProduct zip transfer + extract, and
uninstall orphan cleanup: 17/17 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
install.bat passes /loadinf="...\UltraVNC.inf", so the answer file must have
the .inf extension. Also make build.bat wipe the dx9201006/openal/UltraVNC
package folders before re-copying, so stale files don't linger across builds.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- assets/: replace old reference dumps with the three redist folders the
installer actually consumes (dx9201006/, openal/, UltraVNC/).
- build.bat: mirror each redist folder into the package root so install.bat's
%ROOT%\dx9201006, %ROOT%\openal, %ROOT%\UltraVNC paths resolve; bump header
to v4.11.4.1.
- install.bat: bump header to v4.11.4.1; write Winlogon auto-login regedits
for the Firestorm kiosk account (was manual instructions); fix UltraVNC
setup exe filename typo (UltraVNC_Setup_x64 -> UltraVNC_x64_Setup).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Launcher/build.bat now outputs to dist\TeslaLauncher\ (was TeslaLauncher\ at the
Launcher root) and produces dist\TeslaLauncher-podpkg.zip, matching Console\dist\.
- Both build scripts now zip the package themselves (Compress-Archive) instead of
leaving it as a manual step: Console/build-package.bat -> dist\TeslaConsole-pkg.zip.
- Launcher/.gitignore: ignore /dist/ (drop the obsolete /TeslaLauncher/ + staging
entries); Console already ignores /dist/.
- READMEs updated to point at dist\.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Converts the Launcher Service + Agent from net8/win-x64 self-contained to net48
framework-dependent, and makes Tesla.Contract net48-only (drops multi-targeting).
Both consumers (Console + Launcher) are now a single TFM.
Code changes for net48 (the only net8/netstandard2.1 APIs in use):
- RandomNumberGenerator.Fill -> RandomNumberGenerator.Create().GetBytes (3x)
- TcpListener.AcceptTcpClientAsync(ct) -> AcceptTcpClientAsync() + stop-on-cancel
- byte[].AsSpan().SequenceEqual -> Linq SequenceEqual (no System.Memory) (2x)
- PipeStream.Write(byte[]) / WriteAsync(byte[],ct) -> explicit (buf,0,len[,ct])
- Math.Clamp -> Math.Max/Min
The generic host (Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting 8.x + UseWindowsService) runs on
net48 unchanged. build.bat/install.bat updated for the folder-of-DLLs deploy;
solution platform reverted x64 -> AnyCPU.
RESULT — package size: ~3.7 MB on disk / 1.58 MB zipped, vs ~213 MB / 91 MB for
the net8 self-contained build (~50-58x smaller). net48 ships in Win10/11 so no
runtime prerequisite. 73 tests green; NOT re-validated on a live pod.
Spike branch for evaluation — do not merge without a pod re-test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
build.bat was broken by the contract extraction: it staged the loose Launcher
.cs files into temp folders and published from there, but the projects now have
a ProjectReference to ..\Contract\Tesla.Contract.csproj which cannot resolve from
a temp dir. Publish the projects IN PLACE instead, and target net8 / win-x64
(self-contained single-file) to match the runtime/arch uplift. The resulting
TeslaLauncher\ package (Service\ + Agent\ + install.bat) installs on a pod with
no .NET runtime prerequisite.
- Launcher/README.md: correct net6->net8, x86->x64, BinaryFormatter->framed JSON,
and note wire types now come from ../Contract.
- Launcher/.gitignore: ignore the TeslaLauncher-*.zip deployment package.
- Console/.gitignore: ignore the published TeslaConsole-app\ package + its zip
(framework-dependent net48 console build for running against a test pod).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-locate the two cockpit-pod projects into a single repository:
- Console/ : TeslaConsole, the net48 WinForms operator console (decompiled
reconstruction) plus its differential + catalog test suite.
- Launcher/ : TeslaLauncher, the net6 pod-side Service + Agent rewrite.
Adds a combined TeslaSuite.sln, root README documenting the shared wire
contract (and its current duplication, the main follow-up), and a root
.gitignore. Histories were not preserved per request; this is a fresh start
from the current working state of both projects.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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