WPF application and remote control

Question

Hello everybody,

I have a very subtle problem. I have a WPF application that works perfectly in Desktop A and in Desktop B. The application runs with .NET 4.6

When I connect to Desktop B via remote desktop to Desktop A, the application works more or less fine but sometimes it goes undetected to zombie mode. One has to basically open the task manager and kill it and open the application again. It goes undetected randomly I cannot say there are specific times or actions that make it do this.

Does anyone have a trick? Are there any remote desktop options that are involved?

I googled the problem but all I see are way bigger problems that people are having with remote desktop, my problem is more subtle.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
It depends to some extent on the application you're developing but in general, I'd say that if your application encounters an unhandled exception, you need to terminate it. WPF application works fine on local machines but not for RDP.
I consider that you could try to update your video card driver to check. Then disabling hardware accelleration by creating a DWORD registry value at

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Avalon.Graphics\DisableHWAcceleration

and then setting it to 1.

Also to help you better, I suggest that you could post the issue to WPF forum.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/topics/wpf.html?WT.mc_id=msdnredirect-web-msdn
Hope this helps and please help to accept as Answer if the response is useful.
Best Regards,
Carl