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VS2022: WPF WebView2, thumbs down

Finally out-of-the box (if you use NuGet package manager) the newer WebView2 works with WPF.

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Per the article here:

WebView2 and WPF

It worked first time.

WPF and WV2

While it seems simple enough to spin up, controlling it is another thing. MSFT themselves recommends using Selenium? What? Are you kidding me?

It looks to me like more of the same spoon feeding tactics of the oversized and fat MSFT corporation,

"we'll give you a tad here, but don't look too deep because we don't have it, and we aren't going to support it."

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