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by mwcampbell 1410 days ago
As another Windows application developer targeting enterprise users, thanks for the warning. Electron it is, I guess. Either that, or using the IE engine for web views, or no web views at all.

Edit: I'm already using Electron, though I've been wishing I could move away from it.
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ramones13 1409 days ago
You should verify the original commenters statements hold true in your target environment(s). Office has started heavily relying on WebView2, any enterprise using Office should have WebView2 updating working properly. Ditto for Windows 11.

Not sure what time period the original commenter is referring to, this story has developed quite a bit over the past year, even into last month - https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2022/06/27/delivering-th...

Edit: and if your alternative is Electron, WV2’s fixed runtime is the same concept as Electron in a static Chromium version - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/con...

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api 1410 days ago
If you are shipping software for Windows just make sure your insurance has good mental health coverage.
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mwcampbell 1410 days ago
Heh, I've been shipping software for Windows one way or another for about 20 years. I just hadn't used Edge's WebView2 in anger yet, and now I probably won't.

Edit: And I've generally followed the "bundle every dependency" approach. As far as I can recall, the only dependency in a shipping product that I ever delegated to an external installer was the .NET Framework (before the .NET Core reboot). And IIRC, that did trip up a few users; thankfully, that was only a consumer app.

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