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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 21/08/2025

Blogged: Using the new WebView2 AllowHostInputProcessing Keyboard Mapping Feature Finally finished this post that describes a new WebView feature that allows passing through keystrokes from WebView->Host to naturally handle Windows behaviors correctly. weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/A...

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Using the new WebView2 AllowHostInputProcessing Keyboard Mapping Feature

If you've used the WebVIew2 control for a UI interactive Hybrid active you've probably run into some odd keyboard behavior, where some keys cannot be captured properly in the host application or are n...

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 14/06/2025

That’s what we call a Whiteout! Insane day on the water today with gusts to 50mph and mast high swell rolling down the river. Not forecast either which makes it all the better! #gorgelife

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 10/06/2025

Blogged: Adding Runtime NuGet Package Loading to an Application The post discusses adding NuGet support to my .NET LiveReloadServer tool and it's dynamic loose Razor page support recently. Been really useful to me for several 'Sites with Benefits'. weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/J...

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Adding Runtime NuGet Package Loading to an Application

It's not a common use case, but if you need need to dynamically add external code at runtime, NuGet packages are the most familiar way for developers to add that functionality besides old-school direc...

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 25/03/2025

Blogged: Using Windows Media Speech Recognition in WPF Wrote up some of the struggles I've shared over the last week while integrating Windows SDK, WinRT and speech recognition in a WPF app. End result: 👍 weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/M...

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Using Windows.Media SpeechRecognition in WPF

Windows has a pretty capable SpeechRecognition engine built-in via Windows Media services. In .NET these features are accessible via the Windows SDK (WinSdk) that expose these Windows features to .NET...

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 13/03/2025

Blogged: Accessing Windows Settings Dialogs from Code via Shell Commands Quick blog post for reference that also points at the resource key links available for the protocol handler. weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/M...

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 09/03/2025

Evening session…. Klein aber fein!

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 05/03/2025

Ooops! This is what breaking off a harness hook looks like 😱 Aluminum hook was worn and ripped right off. Quite the slam… sometimes it’s better not to know what happens after you go down 😂🏴‍☠️

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 02/03/2025

Kava and I having a golden moment 😀

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 28/02/2025

Blogged: Inline Confirmations in JavaScript Html UI weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/F...

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 19/01/2025

Dropped a new single from the forth coming Anti-Trust album: War Machine Never forget: War is the REAL Enemy! open.spotify.com/album/3x1R7W...

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War Machine

Anti-Trust · Single · 2024 · 1 songs

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 11/01/2025

Screwing around with building a very simple runtime expression evaluator that doesn't need to compile - just parse and invoke. So far so easy but once you get to methods with parameters the easy part's done with 😂

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 01/01/2025

Last ride of 2024… Small waves and trying out a new camera mount. Result: another broken GoPro mount…

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 30/12/2024

Updating the C# scripting engine in Westwind.Scripting to support layout pages. I finally got fed up with trying to shoehorn other script engines into my templating solutions - Razor especially (both hosted and internal). This is plain old, raw C# code being rendered. github.com/RickStrahl/W...

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 29/12/2024

Running into a weird issue with dynamic and anonymous types while updating my C# scripting library. I'm passing in a model that's an anon type, cast to dynamic, and access to dynamic props then fails. But using Reflection works (ie. the type is there).

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 28/12/2024

Blogged: Back to Basics: Using the Parallel Library to Massively Boost Loop Performance Posting a follow up to recent tweet regarding converting a linear for loop to parallel and gaining huge performance improvements. weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2024/D...

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Back to Basics: Using the Parallel Library to Massively Boost Loop Performance

I recently had another occasion to add Parallel.ForEachAsync() into an application to improve performance of an Http look up operation drastically. When I tweeted a note on X there was quite a bit of ...

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 23/12/2024

Always nice to get an easy win: Switching to a Parallel loop with literally a couple of lines of code and getting massive perf improvements. Link checking in Markdown Monster on one of my old blog posts with lots of links went from 20 seconds down to 2.5 seconds.

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 20/12/2024

New Anti-Trust music from the upcoming Anti-Trust - The Masters of Disaster album. This video is based on themes from Corey Doctorow's discussions on Enshittification of our ever more digital lives. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftgw...

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Anti Trust - Enshittify

YouTube video by Anti-Trust Punk Rock Music

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 18/12/2024

Pushed up a new version of LiveReloadServer today. It's a local, self-contained, x-platform static Web server that also supports loose Razor pages and built-in Markdown rendering plus LiveReload. Updated to .NET 9.0 and fixed a few small issues. github.com/RickStrahl/L...

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 11/12/2024

It was a very challenging day on the water today. Massivevwaves and funky wind make for a precarious situation - got rinsed good a couple of times today. Still managed some good ones though 😀🌊

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 02/12/2024

Well, I managed to get WebView PdfToHtml generation working again in IIS w/ ApplicationPoolIdentity, but looks like it won't work using DevTools protocol but has to use the WebViews more limited PrintToPdf API. Solution: Added a server mode that switches between the two modes. Ugly but it works.

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Markdown Monster @markdownmonster.west-wind.com · 01/12/2024

Did you know you can add external programs to Markdown Monster? Open from the Folder Browser or the editor w/ the active content loaded? There's support for text and image editors and generic externals. Configuration is via Settings in the config file. markdownmonster.west-wind.com/docs/_6if1ep...

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 28/11/2024

Two is better than one! Getting loaves ready for tonight’s dinner.

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 26/11/2024

Interesting... added better support for request cancellation to WebSurge today for interactive URL testing. But when running load tests noticed that load numbers dropped off. Looks like adding a cancellation token is adding nearly 10% overhead to request load. * w/o TCS: 126k * w TCS: 109.7k

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 20/11/2024

Kava says: when are we going to da beach?

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 17/11/2024

Good to see that WebView Pdf/Print output can capture some script generated output like these Mermaid charts from this Markdown rendered HTML output.

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 16/11/2024

Thanks in large part to #MahApps, Jan! Without it Markdown Monster wouldn't be what it is today! Thank you for your work on keeping this wonderful library going!

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 16/11/2024

That feeling when you spend days trying to figure out some complex, convoluted code problem, being elated you got it to work. ... then 3 days later figure out a way to do the same thing with a fraction of the code much more efficiently, while being out windsurfing! 🏴‍☠️

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 15/11/2024

Who said bitching and moaning never gets you anywhere? 😂 Recently noted that Chromium was ignoring HTML print media were not respecting @bottom-right and @top-center. Well, it started working when I didn't expect it to now. 🤦‍♂️ Looks like this got fixed! 👍... now that I don't need it to anymore.

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 14/11/2024

Markdown Monster 3.5 is out. Lots of new stuff and improvements: • Runs on .NET 9.0: Improved perf • Improved ARM support • New PDF Output Engine • Split Panel Sidebar (optional) • Generic file & path resolution (~, %env%) • Updated AI features markdownmonster.west-wind.com #markdown

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 13/11/2024

And... finally get to push out this update with lots of improvements now that .NET 9.0 is out. At first glance the runtime update improves startup speed and perceived UI performance noticeably even somewhat improved from the RC releases. #dotnet

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 11/11/2024

System.Text.Json dynamic deserialization: You can deserialize to `ExpandoObject` but it looks like it only flows to the top level object, not any child objects. So, still no go...

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 11/11/2024

Does the .NET SDK on Windows include the IIS #ASPNET Core Hosting Module? I think it doesn't and if so why not? It installs everything else (.NET, Aspnet, desktop runtimes) Annoying when you do need it easy to forget that it's not installed when everything else ASPNET runs.

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 10/11/2024

Evening fun… Nowhere I’d rather be!

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