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Can Edge be used in VS .net or vb.net ?

vmars316 621 Reputation points
2020-10-13T15:11:22.613+00:00

Can Edge be used in VS .net or vb.net WinForms
instead of IE11 ?
And is there a tutorial or QuickStart for this ?
Thanks for your Help...

Windows Forms
Windows Forms
A set of .NET Framework managed libraries for developing graphical user interfaces.
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  1. Leon Laude 85,781 Reputation points
    2020-10-13T15:14:56.27+00:00

    Hi @vmars316 ,

    Something here might help:

    Introduction to Microsoft Edge WebView2 (Preview)
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/

    Supported platforms
    A developer preview is available on the following programming environments.

    Win32 C/C++
    .NET Framework 4.6.2 or later
    .NET Core 3.0 or later
    WinUI 3.0

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    Best regards,
    Leon

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  1. Castorix31 84,546 Reputation points
    2020-10-13T15:26:55.533+00:00

    I tested WebView1 and WebView2 in VB.NET and C# on Windows 10
    WebView1 worked fine
    WebView2 did not work, probably because I did not install Microsoft Edge Canary channel as mentioned in the doc

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