NetworkHelper.Instance.ConnectionInformation.IsInternetAvailable does not handle WLAN switch (CTA Policy feature)

[HppZ]

NetworkHelper.Instance.ConnectionInformation.IsInternetAvailable is True even when WLAN switch is off for my app.

[ghost]

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[HppZ]

and my app can't access network.

[michael-hawker]

@HppZ we're not doing anything special here and just relying on the System APIs.

If you hook to the underlying NetworkStatusChanged event are you seeing it fire when you flip the app switch?

We then call GetInternetConnectionProfile to detect what's available.

The only logic we do is in ConnectionInformation to break out the IanaInterfaceType off of the NetworkAdapter.

What are these APIs returning for your app? That'd help determine if this is an underlying system API issue or an issue with our heuristic.

[HppZ]

Network & Internet > Wi-Fi > Choose apps that can use your Wi-Fi data.

actually I want to detect if this switch is on or off for my app, but found no way.
do you know how?

[michael-hawker]

I'm not sure, I would have suspected the APIs I pointed to that we're using in the Toolkit may provide some indication, but I believe that switch/feature for apps was added later. If you could do some investigating and report back about what those APIs report with the switch enabled/disabled that could give us a starting point to investigate this issue further.

[HppZ]

moving to microsoft/WindowsAppSDK#1139

[michael-hawker]

Thanks @HppZ for digging deeper and opening an issue on the Windows App SDK! 🦙❤

Looks like there's a good discussion there. @andrewleader if we do find there's an existing API for this scenario we can look at adding a case in the Toolkit; otherwise, it looks like you have a handle in the new SDK now! Thanks!