Summary

Together with the WinUI team, we have built a prototype that brings the WebView2 control from WinUI 3 into WinUI 2, with the same API and behavior found in the WinUI 3 version. In addition to this, we will be making WinRT versions of our APIs public along with reference material. We are aiming to do a public preview by next month.

Rationale

Many of you in the community have requested that we make WebView2 available in UWP apps for your PC-based scenarios. We aim to debut this in WinUI 2.7 previews.

Scope

This version of WebView 2 would only work on PC-class devices, offering the full range of capability found in the WinUI 3 variant. Xbox, HoloLens and XAML Island support require quite a bit of additional work. So those devices/scenarios may be considered at a future point in time, but not for a sooner offering of WebView2 in WinUI2.

Feel free to share any thoughts about adopting WebView2 via WinUI2