Microsoft introduced Microsoft Edge WebView2

WebView is the core browsing control provided by various operating systems. Developers usually encapsulate such controls in applications so that web pages and other content can be loaded.

Some software does not require the web page loading function but some web pages still need it. Previously, Microsoft mainly provided IE/Edge HTML version browsing controls.

Now that Microsoft has fully switched to the Chromium browser kernel, Microsoft announced the launch of the WebView2 browser control based on the Chromium kernel.

WebView2 is an embedded web browsing control provided by Microsoft. The new browsing control is based on Microsoft Edge based on Chromium.

This means that as a Windows application developer, you can now use the new browsing controls in your application to get the latest and best Web technologies.

In contrast, the WebView browser control, which is based on the EdgeHTML engine of the Microsoft Edge UWP version, has been abandoned.

So in order to get the best user experience, Microsoft recommends that developers update the controls in time and use the new version of the controls to improve the content loading speed and optimize the user experience.

In the future, every time Microsoft releases a stable version of the browser, a new development kit will be released in time, and developers can use the latest browsing controls at any time.

According to Microsoft’s instructions, the new version launched this time already supports the C/C++ programming language, and now developers using this language can integrate controls into the production applications.

Next, Microsoft will also bring support for .NET and WinUI 3 versions. Developers using these programming development languages, please be patient and wait for Microsoft’s follow-up SDK suite.

In terms of the production version, Microsoft also provides an evergreen version and fixed version. The so-called evergreen version is the long-term support version that will not be abandoned for a short time.

The fixed version is a version used to fix various known problems and improve stability. Interested developers can click here to visit the Microsoft browser development blog.