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WebView2 is now generally available for UWP apps on Windows

Microsoft is rolling out WebView2 to developers who build UWP apps and use WinUI2 to their advantage in their everyday app coding.

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Microsoft has announced that WebView 2 -- a developer control for embedding web content in applications -- is now generally available for Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps on Windows. One of the top asks from developers, this helps push the process of making modern apps on Windows easier since WebView2 long replaced the older EdgeHTML-based WebView in many UWP (also known as WinUI 2) apps.

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Microsoft Edge is getting a bunch of new features this week at Build

Microsoft has kicked off its Build 2021 conference with a bunch of Edge news, such as Microsoft Edge 91, WebView2 in WinUI 3, and more.

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Microsoft's Build 2021 developer conference starts this week. As usual, the big news drop comes right at the start of the show, so you can dig into the announcements in sessions later. As you'd expect, there's a lot that's new for Microsoft Edge at Build, including new features for web developers.