Alternative for webBrowser control in WebView2

Priyanka Songra 6 Reputation points
2022-03-06T18:31:21.37+00:00

We have a VSTO addin for MS Project 2010/2013/2016/2019, where it imports/exports data from an external application and these pages are rendered in embedded Internet Explorer browser from MS Project.
Since IE support will be ending in few years, we are moving to new embedded browser control known as the Microsoft Edge WebView2 control.
As of now, to display pages using embedded IE, MS.NET includes a "WebBrowser" control that allows .NET applications to provide an embedded web browser.
Now as we want to switch to WebView2 control, is there any control similar to "WebBrowser" control that would work with WebView2 to get handle of the browser?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Priyanka

Windows for business | Windows for IoT
Developer technologies | VB

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  1. Castorix31 91,966 Reputation points
    2022-03-06T19:33:23.023+00:00

    You need to install the WebView2 NuGet Package to create the control, which contains DLLs like Microsoft.Web.WebView2.WinForms.dll
    and the Runtime to make it work (for example, I installed MicrosoftEdgeWebView2RuntimeInstallerX64.exe on my Windows 10 64-bit OS)

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