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

And it's crazy SLOOOOOOW! 5+ seconds to sign a single file and batches go one at a time.

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 · 23/06/2025

I'm working in Net472 for this tool, but I verified the same thing happens in Core (see the LinqPad example).

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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 · 16/03/2025

Yeah it's used for anything that binds logical values - checks, radios, single value props like readonly/disabled that are boolean to indicate whether they are not present at all so that model state can stay consistent.

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 15/03/2025

I think that actually what Razor does for TagHelpers. When I checked there are extra fields that get send (__invariant_modelkeyname) - I think those are meant for disabled, readonly, checkboxes etc. values that can have nullable state.

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Rick Strahl @rickstrahl.west-wind.com · 15/03/2025

That would work, but frankly if you want the readonly behavior it's there already, and you can restyle use tabindex to get the behavior you want. Dealing with the extra field seem like a lot more effort than that.

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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 · 21/01/2025

Yeah good point - it's easy enough to do especially if just re-running the 9.0 runs.

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

LOL! Thanks. Fixed already. Was screwing around with some feature work in Markdown Monster last night and must have published by accident at some point. The post was already cleaned up but not re-published.

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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 · 03/01/2025

Markdown monster has support for publishing to word press.

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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

Scripting for this lib has been built in since the beginning. What's new is Layout Page/Section support and revamped Partial rendering. For now updates live on a separate branch. A few more things to iron out before it goes into master. For now on `NewScriptProcessor` branch.

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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

So the issue turns out to be due to the cross assembly usage of the anonymous types. It works intra assembly as that's internal usage, but extra assembly the internal is not visible to dynamic to access. Reflection works cause (surprisingly) default GetProperty() supports private reflection.

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

Ironically KavaDocs was an MM addin meant as a doc solution. Did a lot of this & would've supported this but it got canned. Looking into building a doc solution right now again as Help Builder is starting to be a pain in the ass to use. But it'll be separate product not in MM as that was a pain.

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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 · 29/12/2024

This is a very weak feature in MM at this point. I don't use it, so it gets no love. But it could be made into something more and this might be a good reason to do this. It's more like a documentation solution where you can have a TOC that controls the structure and order of topics.

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

Hmmm... that's a good idea. MM has a concept of a project into which you can store documents that can be reopened and can store some 'state' about a bunch of documents or folders (ie. root path, project wide options). But no support for output ordering.

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

Yup tried that too and it works. Combining docs and then opening them might a be a nice command line feature for Markdown Monster.

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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 · 27/12/2024

Pandoc. Probably two steps: Merge, then convert.

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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 · 21/12/2024

It's worse when they type with two hands, but it's just as bad as one!

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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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