Either option will start initialization in the background and return back to the caller without waiting for it to finish. This is referred to as implicit initialization. This is referred to as explicit initialization. There are two ways to cause the CoreWebView2 to be created: 1) Call the EnsureCoreWebView2Async(CoreWebView2Environment) method. This is because creating the CoreWebView2 is an expensive operation which involves things like launching Edge browser processes. Upon creation, the control's CoreWebView2 property will be null.

Some of the most common COM functionality is also accessible directly through wrapper methods/properties/events on the control. You can directly access the underlying ICoreWebView2 interface and all of its functionality by accessing the CoreWebView2 property. This control is effectively a wrapper around the (). Namespace: Assembly: .dll Package: 2 v0.9.515-prerelease Package: 2 v0.9.579-prerelease Package: 2 v0.9.628-prerelease Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.30 Package: 2 v.31 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.54 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.44 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.38 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.39 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.39 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.22 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.42 Package: 2 v.44 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.22 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.28 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.22 Package: 2 v.37 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.46 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.40 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v.34 Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v-prerelease Package: 2 v1.0.664.37 Package: 2 v1.0.674-prerelease Package: 2 v1.0.705.50 Package: 2 v1.0.721-prerelease Package: 2 v1.0.774.44 Package: 2 v1.0.790-prerelease Package: 2 v1.0.818.41 Package: 2 v1.0.824-prerelease Package: 2 v1.0.864.35 Package: 2 v1.0.865-prerelease Package: 2 v1.0.902.49 Package: 2 v1.0.902-prerelease Package: 2 v1.0.955-prerelease Package: 2 v1.0.961.33 Package: 2 v1.0.992.28

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