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west wind technologies making waves on the web support weblog articles store pricing news contact welcome to rick strahl s west wind technologies site we build and sell software and tools provide mentoring training and software consulting services on this site you can find links to our various products and services rick s development weblog an extensive archive of rick s white papers and articles and a support message board to have developer discussions products services markdown monster the markdown editor for windows version 4 3 may 1st 2026 markdown monster is an easy to use and extensible markdown editor viewer and weblog publishing tool for windows it supports syntax highlighted markdown editing live html preview inline spellchecking many image embedding options an ai image generator and gentle optional toolbar support for embedding links images and screen captures for user friendly intuitive editing workflow easily publish your work to pdf or html files or publish to any wordpress or metaweblog api compatible weblog and manage your posts from markdown monster there are many built in convenience features like table editing file browser built in git integration integration many shell operations and much more go ahead feed your markdown to the monster west wind web connection version 8 5 may 26th 2026 create web applications with visual foxpro and take advantage of a proven web framework using the foxpro environment you already know develop and test your code inside of the vfp ide against live web requests web connection provides a core web interface engine and several high level frameworks for developing just about any kind of web application you can imagine create server driven html with mvc style scripting development or the rich control based web control framework or use raw code to create low level services or data driven html interfaces on top of web connection s core framework you can also easily build json rest services to act as a front end to rich javascript or mobile applications we provide html templates for all styles of development to make your work look good out of the box documentation monster beta version 0 5 beta may 1st 2026 documentation monster is a powerful yet easy to use tool for creating structured technical documentation for user manuals reference docs faqs knowledge bases etc based on markdown monster s powerful and user friendly markdown editor documentation monster adds rich project management to create edit manage and publish technical documentation online or file based documents the tool is easy to use and works to optimize the process by optimizing the documentation workflow through easy topic management and easy cross linking powerful markdown authoring support that makes content creation a snap west wind websurge http rest client and load tester version 3 0 4 may 15th 2026 websurge lets you create test and save http requests and play them back either interactively for development url testing or under heavy load for web application load testing websurge is optimized to make it easy to create capture or import new requests and test them quickly session data is stored in easily shareable text files that can be checked and shared in source control or use online session sharing to share sessions with other users request results display formatted output for many content types and output is always displayed in a single view for easy access of all request data load tests can be run at any time against selected requests and produce simple understandable stats through the ui or from the command line check out websurge and get results quickly west wind internet and client tools for visual foxpro version 8 3 may 30th 2025 west wind client tools is a suite of utility classes that provide internet functionality including smtp full featured http web access ftp sftp and low level tcp ip access to your foxpro applications utility classes include object based data access to sql server and web data a light weight business object framework a powerful net interop helper component json and xml serializers several configuration management classes and a rich library of utility and api functions useful in everyday visual foxpro development user security manager for web connection version 1 10 may 13th 2020 need to add a full authentication system to your web connection application user security manager for web connection is a drop in interface to provide user authentication profile management account validation password recovery a user menu widget and an administrative user management interface the library is a drop in wwprocess class along with a set of page templates that can be customized to your application s ui and feature set web service proxy generator for visual foxpro version 1 70 december 7th 2020 need to call soap web services with visual foxpro this tool makes it quick and easy to call soap 1 x web services the tool creates a foxpro proxy via a net bridge interface to provide a reliable service interface it automates the net service client and foxpro proxy class generation that you can just call from foxpro with a few lines of code west wind web monitor version 3 60 april 26th 2023 web monitor can help you monitor your web sites or any url for failures or changes and notify you when the url fails or changes get notified on failures via email or execute a url or a local application in response to a failure why use expensive online services when you can run your own easy to use solution using web monitor in house for a fraction of the cost west wind globalization for net version 2 0 june 23rd 2015 this library provides a database driven asp net resource provider and net resource manager for localizing resources via a sql database we support sql server mysql and sqlite out of the box and others can be easily added use either the provided web based interactive resource editor net code using our localization data manager class or simply manipulate data directly in the database to enter and update resources the web interface can import and export resources to and from resx resources so you can easily get your existing resources into the tools edit and then when ready to deploy export back to resx alternately simply run with resources directly out of the database technical support got stuck in your project and need a helping hand to get unstuck we can help with technical and code support for issues large and small we specialize in all aspects of web development and web architecture on the microsoft platform and javscript clients we can also help with windows and iis server issues and of course anything related to net we also still support foxpro clients using our web connection framework and those working with and integrating with web services mentoring and project bootstrapping sometimes you just need a hand to get your project started or to understand how to integrate with a particular technology we can provide one on one mentoring and pair programming to help you grok technology more quickly or to simply get a lift from peer reviewing the work you ve already done and if necessary we can get you started with new technology by implementing skeleton frameworks or new base projects that you can build on top of training have a team of developers and need to get them up to speed on the latest technology we can provide remote or onsite training for your developers in most aspects of net web and client side javascript development we also partner with code training for additional areas that are outside of our area of expertise full service consulting services west wind technologies is a small shop but if your consulting needs call for a bigger team of developers to staff your project we are partnering with code consulting to provide full service consulting and developer staffing services west wind technologies has long partnered with code consulting in publishing the popular code developer magazine but we are also sharing development resources for projects of all sizes code magazine west wind technologies is a co founder code magazine together with eps software code magazine has delivered relevant developer content for nearly 25 years now and the print and online magazine only continues to get more popular as it is one of the last developer magazines still standing while most publishers have gone to online publishing only code excels at advanced in depth developer content with microsoft centric but not exclusive content and you can also frequently find frequent content from your s truly in an issue once in a while if you re a software or computer infrastucture vendor looking for a place to advertise your products or services we can also provide you with a great resource to reach thousands of developers every other month rick strahl s weblog contact rick getting inherited controller routes to work in asp net core june 29 controller inheritance in asp net core is an edge case but if you need it you have to be mindful of how route inheritance works in asp net creating dual use windows gui and console applications june 22 building a tool that provides both a rich windows gui and a functional cli from a single executable presents unique challenges due to how creating a packaged windows single file web site viewer executable june 12 in this post i discuss how a self contained web site viewing tool using a single windows executable that that packages and runs an entire what s new west wind news web connection web log rick strahl on twitter latest releases web connection 8 5 may 26th 2026 west wind websurge 3 0 4 may 15th 2026 markdown monster 4 3 released may 1st 2026 documentation monster beta may 1st 2026 web connection 8 4 july 21st 2025 west wind client tools 8 3 may 30th 2025 web connection 8 3 may 6th 2025 markdown monster 3 7 april 3rd 2025 html help builder 5 38 january 24th 2024 west wind web monitor 3 60 april 26th 2023