Microsoft Edge WebView2 Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Web Apps Are Better Than No Apps

  Microsoft has this on Windows: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ Teams 2 is supposed to use it (and there's a couple smaller system apps that use it). - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• .NET desktop development, Desktop development with C++ or Universal Windows Platform development?

  I'd like to make my own Web Browser using the Microsoft Edge WebView2 that can also run on Windows 11 for Arm64. Source: 10 months ago

• Perspective 2.0, Open Source WebAssembly-Powered BI

  Electron is going to kill the good performance gains of Perspective. Even if you have a fully beefed-up workstation, Electron is going to trigger the CPU fans. Electron is discouraged nowadays in favor of lightweight solutions like Sciter[0], Tauri[1] or even WebView2[2]. -- [0]: https://sciter.com/ [1]: https://tauri.app/ [2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Why the New Microsoft Teams is the Ultimate Communication Tool for the Modern Workplace

  The above user is technically correct it is not Electron. It is a MS supported Chromium-baesd WebView program based on their Edge browser: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Calling All Ducks: We Need Testers for our Beta Windows Browser!

  If you had spent 5 mins googling you'd see that it webview2 uses edge to render content https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/ . Edge literally forked chromium. Read the first couple sentences of the wikipedia article of edge "It was first released in 2015 as part of Windows 10 and Xbox One and later ported to other platforms as a fork of Google's Chromium open-source project: ". Its rendering... Source: about 1 year ago

• Is there something like Electron or Tauri for dotnet?

  I believe you are talking about the older WebBrowser control for wpf. It's been replaced by WebView2 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Winforms Browser Control

  You could use WebView2: Introduction to Microsoft Edge WebView2. Source: over 1 year ago

• I improved the meme

  Here is the Microsoft docs page for this feature: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Need suggestions for ways to interact with browser from C# application

  Using C# you could write a program, such as a WPF program, that uses the WebView2 control with Html Agility Pack. That would be good if you needed a UI but I assume not. Source: over 1 year ago

• I have completly removed all the crapware :)

  "The WebView2 control uses Microsoft Edge as the rendering engine to display the web content in native apps." https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• so many options

  11 doesn't, not because it really wants you to use Edge but because Edge is necessary for WebView2, which is a good thing that you shouldn't break. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Why is windows like this

  What you're thinking about is Microsoft Edge WebView2. It's a separate install for Windows 10/11, regular Edge uninstalls fine. Source: about 2 years ago

• Got my hands on DuckDuckGo’s new privacy browser. AMA

  This is not correct. It's a wrapper around Edge's Webview2. Since it uses Edge as the rendering engine it is, by extension, Chromium-based. Source: about 2 years ago

• Microsoft Unnecessary Crap on my PC :)

  I think Microsoft Edge WebView 2 it's more like embedded browser for your apps - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/. Source: about 2 years ago

• Why Remotion is a native macOS app (not Electron)

  Teams 2.0 in Windows is moving away from Electron but still using web based technology. It's not going to use Chromium to render, it'll use Edge Webview2 that comes with the OS. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/teams-2-0-moves-away-from-electron-to-embrace-edge-webview2/m-p/2484565 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago