Interop and C# wrapper classes for Microsoft WebView2 web browser control

When Microsoft revealed their plans for a Chrome based Edge browser the first thing I thought was "I wonder if they are going to support an embedded web browser control"? Well sure enough they released WebView2 and I've been keeping an eye on the releases. Recently I found a great sample written by David Risney and I was inspired to take a shot at putting together a C# version.

This project contains interop code for the WebView2. Most of it has been modified from what you get from the standard tlbimp command. Besides the interop classes which match the WebView2 interface closely there are also some wrapper classes around the interfaces available. The wrappers try to take some of the patterns used in C++ and hopefully make them a little more C# friendly. For example the add/remove methods with interface callbacks have been changed to Register/Unregister that take Actions with event arguments.

The browser demo project can be downloaded from webview2-dotnetbrowser

Besides using this project it uses a WebView2 Windows Forms control implementation of WebView2 you can use in the Visual Studio designer.

• Microsoft Edge (Chromium) installed on a supported OS.
• Visual Stdio 2017 or 2019 with C# and desktop development set up

Some projects require initial configuration (e.g. access tokens or keys, npm i). This is the section where you would document those requirements.

• Interop classes for the WebView2

• Wrapper classes around WebView2 interfaces

• If you are using 0.9.430 check here to see what is implemented and working.

• If you are using 0.8.355 or below check here to see what is implemented and working.

If you'd like to contribute, please fork the repository and use a feature branch. Please let me know of any issues you run into.

• Nuget download: https://www.nuget.org/packages/MtrDev.WebView2.Interop/
• Project homepage: https://github.com/michael-russin/webview2-interop
• Repository: https://github.com/michael-russin/webview2-interop
• Issue tracker: https://github.com/michael-russin/webview2-interop/issues
• Related projects:
  • WebView2 Windows Forms Control: https://github.com/michael-russin/webview2-control
  • David's awsome C++ sample: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Browser
  • WebView2 Documentation: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/hosting/webview2/reference-webview2

The code in this project is licensed under MIT license.