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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 · 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 · 21/01/2025

The memory utilization however is very different with the default configuration (1) running with 10x less memory just like the comparison between 8.0 and 9.0. So you might be right - most of the small perf difference likely comes from this feature flag change.

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 21/01/2025

So tried it - doesn't make much of a difference in performance. Pretty close. However, flipping back and forth I see around 164k/sec (0) vs 160k/sec (1) between the two modes.

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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

I didn't show it in the original example file but the script parser also supports raw C# code blocks so you can write raw C# code inline: It ain't as pretty Razor, but it sure works better in generic editors than Razor syntax.

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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

To be clear the code that is shown as text, is generated and compiled and executed on the fly (it's a script) using Roslyn. I've tried to duplicate this as a simplified scenario in LinqPad with and the same scenario appears to work there:

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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 · 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 · 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

What's missing in 'server mode' then? The PDF Table Of Contents generation is not there. Basically this doesn't not work in 'system/unattended' mode operation.

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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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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 · 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 · 10/11/2024

Evening fun… Nowhere I’d rather be!

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