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...

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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Blogged: Fighting through Setting up Microsoft Trusted Signing weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/J...

Fighting through Setting up Microsoft Trusted Signing

It's that time of year again to update my CodeSigning certificate, only to find out that the rules have changed since I last did this. Certs now require either a physical hardware key or a online serv...

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Blogged: Unpacking Zip Folders into Windows Long File Paths Wrote up some notes from my recent misadventures with the #dotnet ZipFile class and unpacking long filenames. weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/J...

Unpacking Zip Folders into Windows Long File Paths

Ah, long file paths bit me again today - this time with `ZipFile.ExtractToDirectory()` not unzipping long path files, even when specifying long path syntax for the output folder. In this post I briefl...

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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

Are you feeling it yet? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFz...

Anti-Trust - The Masters of Disaster

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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...

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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Blogged: The Strong ARM of .NET: Wrestling with x64 and Arm64 Desktop App Deployment weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/A...

The Strong ARM of .NET: Wrestling with x64 and Arm64 Desktop App Deployment

.NET works great for cross-platform development making it easy to build apps that are cross-platform and cross-architecture specifically for x64 and Arm64. However, building a distributable applicati...

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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...

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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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...

Evening session…. Klein aber fein!

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 😂🏴‍☠️

Kava and I having a golden moment 😀

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

Blogged: Retrieving Images from the Clipboard Reliably in WPF Revisited weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/F...

Retrieving Images from the Clipboard Reliably in WPF Revisited

The WPF Clipboard is notoriously bad for retrieving image data, mainly because of the funky behavior of the ImageSource control into which clipboard data is loaded. WPF cuts a lot of corners when retr...

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Posted my annual .NET version comparison throughput tests along with some initial perceptions of moving to .NET 9.0. This year is a little... different. weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/J...

Comparing Raw ASP.NET Request Throughput across Versions: 8.0 to 9.0 Edition

Once again I'm taking a look at the newish .NET release and how it compares to the previous release - this time .NET 9.0 from .NET 8.0. I'll run my simple load tests to compare performance and also di...

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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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Evening session…

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 😂

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

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...

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).

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...

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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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.

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...

Anti Trust - Enshittify

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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...

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 😀🌊

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.

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...

First draft is out Fiddler - Mistakes and Happy Accidents textslashplain.com/2024/11/24/f...

Fiddler – My Mistakes

On a flight back from Redmond last week, I finally read Linus Torvalds’ 2002 memoir “Just For Fun.” I really enjoyed its picture of Linux (and Torvalds) early in its success, with…

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