WebView

Avalonia/WPF control that wraps CefGlue webview control

WebView lets you embed Chromium in .NET apps. It is a .NET wrapper control around CefGlue and provides a better and simple API. Likewise CefGlue it can be used from C# or any other CLR language and provides both Avalonia and WPF web browser control implementations.

Here's a table for supported architectures, frameworks and operating systems:

OS	x64	ARM64	WPF	Avalonia
Windows	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
macOS	✔️	✔️	❌	✔️
Linux	✔️	🔘	❌	✔️

✔️ Supported | ❌ Not supported | 🔘 Works with issues.

See LINUX.md for more information about issues and tested distribution list. Currently only x64 and ARM64 architectures are supported.

It also provides the following additional features:

Strongly-typed javascript evaluation: results of javascript evaluation returns the appropriate type
Scripts are aggregated and executed in bulk for improved performance
Ability to evaluate javascript synchronously
Javascript error handling with call stack information
Events to intercept and respond to resources loading
Events to track file download progress
Ability to load embedded resources using custom protocols
Ability to disable history navigation
Error handling
Proxy configuration support
Option to run in offscreen rendering mode (not recommended as it has several issues)

Releases

Stable binaries are released on NuGet, and contain everything you need to embed Chromium in your .NET/CLR application.

Documentation

See the Sample project for example web browsers built with WebView. It demos some of the available features.

Other

Avalonia FuncUI Support.

Versioning

The versioning system works as follows:

<major>.<cef_version>.<patch>

Whenever you fix a bug, please increase the patch version.
Whenever you bring a new feature, please increase the major version.
Use the minor version for the current cef version.

TODO