Windows 10: Introducing WebView2Browser: A rich sample for WebView2

Brink · Aug 15, 2019

At this year’s Build conference in May, we announced the Win32 preview of the WebView2 control powered by the Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. Since then, we have been engaging with the community and partners to collect a great deal of feedback, and delivering SDK updates every six-weeks.

To demonstrate the new WebView’s capabilities, we built a sample browser app (we call it WebView2Browser) using the WebView2 APIs. The intent was to develop a rich sample that benefits other developers building on top of WebView2, and to provide direct feedback to the rest of the WebView2 team from first-hand app-building experience. The sample features an array of functionalities, such as navigation, searching from the address bar, tabs, favorites, history, and verifying a secure connection.

Get the sample on GitHub

You can read more about WebView2Browser and play with the source code on our GitHub repo. The sample code demonstrates a variety of WebView workflows – from the basics of using navigation APIs and calling JavaScript to retrieve the document title, to more advanced cases such as communicating between multiple WebViews through postMessage and using Chrome DevTools Protocol. The app-building experience also gave us some great ideas for future WebView functionalities – accelerator key event, user data/cache management – just to name a few.

Build your own WebView2 app

Apart from the WebView2Browser sample, you can also learn more about WebView2 through our documentation and getting-started guide. Tell us what you plan to build with WebView2 and we’re excited to hear your thoughts on our feedback repo.

– Limin Zhu, Program Manager, Microsoft Edge WebView
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Source: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/...-for-webview2/

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Roohi_Taj · Aug 15, 2019

Can't play Hit It Rich game and system freezes

TRYING TO PLAY "HIT IT RICH"IT'S A GAME I DOWNLOADED FROM GOOGLE,EVERYTIME I TRY ON GOOGLE IT WON'T LOAD AND A MESSAGE AT THE TOP OF SCREEN SAY'S"EMBEDDED PAGE SAYS HIR,PLEASE GO TO YOUR JAVASCRIPT,PLUS IT KEEPS FREEZING IF I'M NOT CONSTANTLY USING THE LAPTOP,SO
I CAN'T GET THE GAME ON GOOGLE AND IT FREEZES FOR NO REASON
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Hi carmenstanley1,

Thank you for your response.

I can understand how frustrating it would be. This issue might be due to corrupted profile or if the game is not installed completely. I suggest you to follow these steps and let us know if it works.

Could you please help me with the below questions:

Are you aware of any changes happened on the computer prior to this issue?

Have you tried playing this game on other browser (Google chrome or Mozilla) and check for the issue?

Step 1: Uninstall or Repair the game.

Press Windows and
R key together on your Keyboard.

Type appwiz.cpl and hit enter.

Right click on the Hit it Rich app > Select Repair or uninstall it.

Reinstall the application and check for the issue.

Step 2: Create a new local account.

The reason might be due to user account corruption, so I would suggest you to ‘Create
a local user or administrator account’ and check if the issue persists.

Note: You will not see all your files under your default file location.
So your data will be saved under C:\Users\User_name.

If you are facing issues with freezing, I would suggest you to follow the troubleshooting steps on
Tips to improve PC performance in Windows
10.

Hope it helps.

Roohi Taj S

Microsoft Community - Moderator

Brink · Aug 15, 2019

New Microsoft Edge WebView2 SDK developer preview update now available

Last month at Build, we introduced the new WebView2 coming to Windows, powered by the upcoming Chromium-based Microsoft Edge. Today, we’re releasing a new update to the WebView2 SDK, and with it we’re ready to encourage a broader set of app developers to try the WebView2 preview and give us early feedback.

The WebView 2 preview has a limited scope, with support for an initial set of Win32 C++ APIs on Windows 10. Support for other Windows versions (Windows 7+ and Windows Server 2012 R2+) and UWP/WFP/WinForms support will become available in the future.

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Learn more about WebView2 in our session from Build 2019: ““

With today’s SDK updates, WebView2 addresses a number of popular requests we heard during the initial preview, including supporting 32-bit WebView on 64-bit machines, the ability to disable devtools, the ability to disable status bar, and more. Going forward, our initial plan is to update the SDK roughly every six weeks, with our cadence and roadmap primarily driven by your feedback. You can receive information about new releases via our release notes or via the RSS feed of the WebView2 NuGet package.

About the control

The WebView2 control allows developers to host web content within your native apps. This hybrid approach lets you to share code with similar controls on other platforms or with your websites, to inject dynamic content into your native apps, and to leverage the rich and growing ecosystem of tools, frameworks, and talent around web technologies, among other benefits.

WebView2 can power a wide spectrum of apps and use cases. For example, we’re working closely with the Office team to bring a WebView2-powered Add-ins experience to future versions of apps like Excel, which will allow add-ins to leverage the full-fidelity Chromium engine that powers Microsoft Edge.

Office add-ins such as this one by Lucidchart will be able to leverage the modern capabilities of Microsoft Edge, enabled by WebView2

A consistent foundation for web apps on all Windows devices

By building on the same Chromium-based foundation as the next version of Microsoft Edge, the new WebView2 control is compatible with the latest web platform capabilities and broadly interoperable with the web experiences you have already built. WebView2 is by default powered by the always up-to-date Microsoft Edge, so you can build your web content against the latest and most secure platform without worrying about fragmentation across Windows versions, or across your web content running in the browser and in your app.

For developers that need a fully locked-down web platform, we’re working on a bring-your-own mode, which will allow bundling a redistributable version of the browser with a WebView2 app. The redistributable browser powering WebView2 gets no automatic update; in this case, app developers are responsible for servicing and updating the WebView to receive security updates and new capabilities.

We recognize that many developers have invested in EdgeHTML and MSHTML-based web apps and hybrid apps over time. As we build out WebView2, we expect it to be a compelling successor for these developers, but we hear loud and clear that not every app is ready to move forward. Existing Windows applications built with Windows web technologies, such as EdgeHTML/MSHTML-based WebViews or WWA/HWA/PWA built on top of the UWP platform, will continue to work as-is without modification.

Getting started the preview

We’re early in our journey to provide a modern, robust WebView for Windows devices, and the future direction of WebView2 will be heavily influenced by your feedback. Visit our documentation to learn more about the developer preview, check out the getting-started tutorial, and share your feedback, suggestions, and details on your scenarios over at our feedback repo.

Have fun building!

– Limin Zhu, Program Manager, WebView
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Source: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/...loper-preview/

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Nikhar_K · Aug 15, 2019

photos or logos appearing in search bar when looking for something.

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

I understand that you are getting images while using the search bar in Google Chrome. I see that this a new feature that’s been introduced in Google Chrome version 75.0.3770.80.

However, I would like to let you know that you can take off the photos that are displayed while you search for something by following the steps listed below. Kindly follow the same and see if it works:

Open Chrome browser and copy paste the following string into the Chrome address bar:
chrome://flags/#omnibox-rich-entity-suggestions

Press Enter, and choose ‘Omnibox Rich Entity Suggestions’ option to
Disabled from the drop down menu.

Close the browser and relaunch it.

For further queries, I would suggest you to get in touch with the
Google support team and they will help you with this.

Regards,

Nikhar Khare

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