WebView2 documentation

Embed web technologies (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) in your native apps.

Introduction and overview

Get started

• Introduction to Microsoft Edge WebView2
• Overview of WebView2 APIs
• Differences between Microsoft Edge and WebView2
• Set up your Dev environment for WebView2

What's new

• Release notes for the WebView2 SDK

How-To Guide

• WebView2 end-user FAQ

Platforms and samples

sample

• WebView2 sample apps
• Win32 sample app
• Win32 sample WebView2Browser
• WinUI 2 (UWP) sample app
• WinUI 3 (Windows App SDK) sample app
• WPF sample app
• WinForms sample app

Tutorial

• Getting Started tutorials
• Get started with WebView2 in HoloLens 2 Unity apps (Preview)

Support and community

Training

• WebView2Announcements repo
• WebView2Feedback repo
• Contact the WebView2 team

Navigation, events, and authentication

Architecture

• Main classes for WebView2: Environment, Controller, and Core

How-To Guide

• Navigation events for WebView2 apps
• Handling process-related events in WebView2
• Basic authentication for WebView2 apps
• Windowed vs. visual hosting of WebView2

Customization and UI

How-To Guide

• Customizing the UI of WebView2 apps
• Custom management of network requests
• Using frames in WebView2 apps
• Printing from WebView2 apps
• Using local content in WebView2 apps
• Customize context menus in WebView2

Reference

• WebView2 browser flags

Web and native interop

How-To Guide

• Interop of native and web code
• Call web-side code from native-side code
• Call native-side code from web-side code
• Call native-side WinRT code from web-side code

Architecture

• How WinRT types and members are represented in JavaScript

Test and automation for WebView2 apps

How-To Guide

• Test upcoming APIs and features
• Use the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) in WebView2 apps
• Use Playwright to automate and test in WebView2
• Automate and test WebView2 apps with Microsoft Edge WebDriver
• Prerelease testing using preview channels
• Self-host by deploying preview channels

Best practices

Concept

• Development best practices for WebView2 apps
• Develop secure WebView2 apps

Distribution and SDK versions

How-To Guide

• Prerelease and Release SDKs for WebView2
• Evergreen vs. fixed version of the WebView2 Runtime
• Distribute your app and the WebView2 Runtime
• Enterprise management of WebView2 Runtimes
• Distribute an app as a single executable file
• Publish a UWP WebView2 app to the Microsoft Store

sample

• WebView2 deployment samples
• WebView2 Deployment Visual Studio installer
• WiX Burn Bundle to deploy the WebView2 Runtime
• WiX Custom Action to deploy the WebView2 Runtime

Architecture and Reference

Architecture

• Process model for WebView2 apps
• Threading model for WebView2 apps

Reference

• WebView2 API Reference

User data and history

How-To Guide

• Manage user data folders
• Support multiple profiles under a single user data folder
• Clear browsing data from the user data folder

Concept

• Data and privacy in WebView2

Debug WebView2 apps

How-To Guide

• Debug WebView2 apps
• Debug WebView2 apps with Microsoft Edge DevTools
• Debug WebView2 apps with Visual Studio Code
• Debug WebView2 apps with Visual Studio
• Remote debugging WebView2 WinUI 2 (UWP) apps
• Remote debugging desktop WebView2 WinUI 2 (UWP) apps
• Remote debugging HoloLens 2 WebView2 WinUI 2 (UWP) apps
• Remote debugging Xbox WebView2 WinUI 2 (UWP) apps