microsoft / microsoft/WindowsAppSDK
Badge notifications can be lost when clearing and immediately setting a new badge value
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Description
### Describe the bug
When a badge is cleared and a new badge is posted immediately afterwards, the new badge may not appear.
## Additional observations
* Reproduced with both `Microsoft.Windows.BadgeNotifications.BadgeNotificationManager` and `Windows.UI.Notifications.BadgeUpdater`.
* Adding a delay of approximately 200 ms between the clear and update operations consistently works.
* A delay of 100 ms is insufficient on the tested system.
* This suggests a possible timing/ordering issue in the underlying badge notification pipeline rather than in a specific API surface.
### Steps to reproduce the bug
``` csharp
var badgeNotificationManager = BadgeNotificationManager.Current;
badgeNotificationManager.SetBadgeAsCount(100); // shows "99+"
badgeNotificationManager.SetBadgeAsCount(0); // clears
badgeNotificationManager.SetBadgeAsCount(99); // expected: 99
// actual: no badge
```
## Workaround
``` csharp
badgeNotificationManager.SetBadgeAsCount(0);
await Task.Delay(200);
badgeNotificationManager.SetBadgeAsCount(99);
```
### Expected behavior
The badge should immediately update from "99+" to "99" without requiring a delay.
### Screenshots
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### NuGet package version
2.2.0
### Packaging type
Packaged (MSIX)
### Windows version
_No response_
### IDE
Other
### Additional context
* Reproduced with Windows App SDK 2.2.
* OS build: **26200.8655**
* IDE: Visual Studio 2026
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the transition through Microsoft.Windows.BadgeNotifications.BadgeNotificationManager and compare it with Windows.UI.Notifications.BadgeUpdater. Trace the badge notification pipeline to determine why clearing followed immediately by setting 99 can lose the update; done means the badge changes from 99+ to 99 without a delay on the reported Windows App SDK version and OS build.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, csharp
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100