WebView2 API Reference

The Microsoft Edge WebView2 control enables you to host web content in your application using Chromium-based Microsoft Edge as the rendering engine.

Platforms

WebView2 is available for the following frameworks or platforms:

.NET/C#

• Core
• WPF
• Windows Forms
• Unity/HoloLens 2

WinRT/C#

• Microsoft.Web.WebView2.Core - Common to all WinRT frameworks.
• COM Interop/C++ - Common to all WinRT frameworks.
• WinUI 2 (UWP)
  • Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.WebView2 Class
• WinUI 3 (Windows App SDK)
  • Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Controls.WebView2 Class

Win32/C++

• API Reference for WebView2 Win32 C++

Use all three tabs

Tip: When reading a non-Reference article about WebView2, to see all available documentation for a type or member, click the links in all three tabs in the article: .NET/C#, WinRT/C#, and Win32/C++.

JavaScript

On the web side of a WebView2 app, WebView2 exposes JavaScript APIs to the HTML documents that are running within the WebView2 control. These JavaScript APIs are mostly to support communication with the host application.

• JavaScript

See also

• Overview of Microsoft Edge WebView2
• Get started with WebView2