Version 0.1.17

[AussieScorcher]

Summary

This pull request delivers a set of improvements aimed at making SimConnect.NET more reliable, predictable, and easier to diagnose. It introduces safer exception handling across all background loops, improves struct based SimVar writing, strengthens input event parsing, and updates integration tests for better stability. The release also bumps the version to 0.1.17 and updates the changelog.

Changes Made

• Added a central ExceptionHelper and updated all major background loops to swallow only non critical exceptions while allowing critical ones to surface, improving safety and observability
• Refined diagnostics in the SimConnect client and logger, including clearer cancellation logging and level gated debug output
• Improved struct based SimVar writing with cached writers, strict ANSI encoding rules, and better error surfacing, plus added support for automatic type inference for SimConnectDataInitPosition
• Hardened input event enumeration and parsing with safer fallbacks, guarded decoding, and defensive try get helpers
• Updated subscription callback behaviour to log user exceptions without crashing the SimConnect thread
• Improved integration test stability by reusing a single SimConnectClient, switching AI object offset calculations to double arithmetic, and simplifying unused locals
• Performed small code cleanups including LINQ based container title enumeration
• Bumped the package version to 0.1.17 and updated the changelog accordingly

Additional Information

These changes collectively make exception behaviour more predictable, improve SimVar struct layout correctness, reduce hidden crashes in user code paths, and strengthen the overall test harness to prevent intermittent failures.

Author Information

Discord Username: AussieScorcher

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Pull Request Overview

This PR introduces version 0.1.17 of SimConnect.NET with improvements focused on exception handling, struct-based SimVar operations, input event parsing robustness, and test infrastructure stability.

• Adds a central ExceptionHelper to distinguish critical from non-critical exceptions across background loops
• Enhances struct-based SimVar writing with cached writers and improved ANSI string encoding
• Strengthens input event parsing with defensive fallbacks and guarded type conversions

Reviewed Changes

Copilot reviewed 16 out of 16 changed files in this pull request and generated 8 comments.

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File	Description
Directory.Build.props	Bumps package version to 0.1.17
CHANGELOG.md	Documents all changes in version 0.1.17
src/SimConnect.NET/Internal/ExceptionHelper.cs	Adds new helper to identify critical exceptions that should not be swallowed
src/SimConnect.NET/SimConnectClient.cs	Adds exception filtering and improves cancellation logging
src/SimConnect.NET/SimConnectLogger.cs	Adds exception filtering, improves error reporting, and uses Path.Join
src/SimConnect.NET/SimVar/SimVarManager.cs	Adds cached struct writers, exception filtering, null-unit support, and type inference for SimConnectDataInitPosition
src/SimConnect.NET/SimVar/Internal/SimVarRequest.cs	Adds exception filtering and logging for user callback errors
src/SimConnect.NET/SimVar/Internal/SimVarFieldReaderFactory.cs	Updates error message to reference [SimConnect] attribute
src/SimConnect.NET/SimVar/Internal/SimVarFieldWriterFactory.cs	Updates error message and removes dead code assignment
src/SimConnect.NET/SimVar/Internal/SimVarFieldWriter.cs	Refactors string encoding to use Latin1 with explicit null termination
src/SimConnect.NET/InputEvents/InputEventManager.cs	Adds exception filtering and defensive input event parsing
src/SimConnect.NET/InputEvents/InputEventValue.cs	Refines exception handling in TryGetDoubleValue and simplifies TryGetStringValue
src/SimConnect.NET/AI/SimObjectType.cs	Refactors GetAllContainerTitles to use LINQ
tests/SimConnect.NET.Tests.Net8/Tests/TestRunner.cs	Refactors to reuse single SimConnectClient and updates test iteration
tests/SimConnect.NET.Tests.Net8/Tests/ConnectionTests.cs	Replaces unused local variables with discard operator
tests/SimConnect.NET.Tests.Net8/Tests/AIObjectTests.cs	Uses explicit double casts for position offset calculations

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

tests/SimConnect.NET.Tests.Net8/Tests/TestRunner.cs:121

• This foreach loop immediately maps its iteration variable to another variable - consider mapping the sequence explicitly using '.Select(...)'.

            foreach (var resultTask in testsToRun.Select(test => this.RunSingleTestAsync(test)))
            {
                var result = await resultTask;
                results.Add(result);

                if (!result.Passed && options.StopOnFirstFailure)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine("🛑 Stopping on first failure as requested");
                    break;
                }

                // Small delay between tests
                await Task.Delay(500);
                Console.WriteLine();
            }