Cross-boundary communication between desktop and web
A practical architecture for desktop→SaaS migration with backwards compatibility, using message contracts across iframes, windows, and a WebView2 host.
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From Web to Desktop: Building CodeForge Portable with WebView2
TL;DR Built a 2MB desktop version of my web-based AI coding assistant using WPF +...
Jan 12, 20266 min read1 reactions0 comments
From WebView to WebView2 in UWP
In the old days, accessing a local website in UWP was relatively easy. Even if you wanted to load...
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Jul 17, 2021Some thoughts on the new Microsoft Teams 2.0 architecture (WebView2/ReactJS)
Updated on 2021/07/24, Electron.js has published a great article on comparing Electron to WebView2....
Jul 17, 20214 min read18 reactions2 comments
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Aug 31, 2020Comparing process working sets of WebView-based Windows Desktop apps
Updated, related discussion in MicrosoftEdge Feedback repo. The source code repo with examples of...
Aug 31, 20202 min read3 reactions0 comments