The default Microsoft timestamp server frequently causes intermittent failures during the code-signing process, particularly when processing many files or large binaries as part of a application distribution. These reliability issues can be resolved by replacing the Microsoft timestamp server with a more stable, compatible third-party alternative.

The WebView2 control lacks a direct `Reload(noCache)` overload that forces a browser hard reload of the current page. Instead content is loaded with a soft refresh that - hopefully - reloads the current page and its dependencies dependent on WebView environment and server cache policies. In this post we'll look at how to work around this limitation and force a hard refresh in several different ways.