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Updater Dialog can Hide Behind App Making it appear App is Unresponsive.
There is probably a way to keep the dialog in front.

Steps to duplicate:
Run Brain Simulator in Release mode
Click somewhere on Brain Simulator
Updater Dialog hides in back and user has to Alt Tab to find it

If Windows OS is set up to enlarge text (e.g. to be more readable on a 4k monitor), the enlarged text in dialog boxes etc overflows, or is cut off.

When Brain Simulator II is pinned to Windows task bar, clicking on a XML listed doesn't bring up the requested network from XML.
Instead it brings up the last one shown, which is a useful feature of its own. Probably what is going on is the file path and name is being passed in as an arg but being ignored, so perhaps Brain Sim can bring up the file had passed into it as an arg, or bring up the last one used, if no argument is supplied.

Brain Simulator 1.6.4

If user installs binary installation package, and don't have .NET 6 runtime installed as well, then app won't run
Might be nice feature if install includes the .NET 6 runtime install if not already installed.

This is a very general issue to do with presentation UI design.

How does a novice user differentiate between functionality like speech recognition from pretrained nuget packages and the Spiking Neuron AGI functionality. Developers of course know the difference, but ordinary users such as students may not know the difference and might assume it is spiking neuron AGI functionality that is doing the speech recognition.

So the question is: How to represent that distinction in the UI with out creating clutter or distraction.

One simple way would be to add it to the notes of examples that use speech recognition, however, there is nothing that enforces that, so users could create and share XML files that make no mention of that.

Another idea would be to put mention of it ("using .NET System.Speech.Recognition") in the status bar. This would automatically show when it is used by the network. The wording might have to be clarified for the average user.
Is it worth implementing, and what other ways could it be implemented?

On a power desktop with the latest Windows OS, open a complicated network. Get it to crash and hang by simply trying things like clicking the reset button.
Shut it down using Task Manager. Optionally reboot the computer-but it may not be needed to duplicate.
Run Brain Simulator again. It automatically opens the same complicated network, and may hang right away.
Now there is no way to run the app, and it must be uninstalled/reinstalled or possibly (not verified yet) the registry or some other configuration that survives the uninstall to have to be cleaned out.

Brain Simulator does not actually shut down if the main window is closed using the X button in top right corner. After that there is no way to reopen it to do a normal shutdown.
This needs exact steps to duplicate.

• OS: Windows 11, 10
• Brain Simulator II Version 1.6.4 and source code version 1.6.3

Two different ways to expose issues:
Open Maze network on a i7 gaming laptop with 16GB RAM, Windows 8.1
Open Conway's game without restarting app. Loading XML will hang for hours.

Run app afresh
Load Conways Game of Life. Pause it. Click randomly around to excite neurons. App becomes unresponsive.

It's possible that the laptop was mostly simply running out of memory, because the Game of Life runs on a i9 system with 64 GB RAM and Windows 11. However, it could be made to hang by clicking on the Reset < button

About Dialog can be resized causing peculiar states like this:

Some Icons Are Not Shown, e.g. the Run Button
Brain Simulator,

• OS: Windows 8.1
• Version Brain Simulator 1.6.4

If you do something that causes this line of code to run, it can crash if the reference is null:
if (m2DModel != null && moved && motionX != 0 || motionY != 0)

In Brain Simulator see
ModuleMove.cs

Exact steps to reproduce not know yet

Expected it not to crash

• OS: Windows 10
• Version 1.6.4

The solution is to fix the code like this:
if (m2DModel != null && moved && (motionX != 0 || motionY != 0))