CefSharp .Net Core/.Net 5.0+ Nuget Package
Background:
CefSharp is a .Net wrapping library for CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef
CEF is a C/C++ library that allows developers to embed the HTML content rendering strengths of Google's Chrome open source WebKit engine (Chromium).
Post Installation:
- Read the quick start guide https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki/Quick-Start-For-MS-.Net-5.0-or-greater
- Read the release notes for your version https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/releases (Any known issues will be listed here)
- It is recommended that you set a during development, adding the following to your project file $(NETCoreSdkRuntimeIdentifier)
Please read https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/issues/3284#issuecomment-772132523 for more information.
- Read the `Need to know/limitations` section of the General usage guide (https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki/General-Usage#need-to-knowlimitations)
- Check your output `\bin` directory to make sure the appropriate references have been copied.
- Add an app.manifest to your exe if you don't already have one, it's required for Windows 10 compatability, HighDPI support and tooltips. The https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp.MinimalExample project contains an example app.manifest file in the root of the WPF/WinForms/OffScreen examples.
Deployment:
- Make sure a minimum of `Visual C++ 2019` is installed (`x86`, `x64` or `arm64` depending on your build) or package the runtime dlls with your application, see the FAQ for details.
What's New:
See https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/releases
Basic Troubleshooting:
- Minimum of .Net Core 3.1 (.Net 5.0 and greater are also supported)
- Minimum of `Visual C++ 2019 Redist` is installed (either `x86`, `x64` or `arm64` depending on your application).
- Please ensure your output directory contains these required dependencies:
* libcef.dll (Chromium Embedded Framework Core library)
* icudtl.dat (Unicode Support data)
* chrome_elf.dll(Crash reporting library)
* snapshot_blob.bin, v8_context_snapshot.bin (V8 snapshot data)
* locales\en-US.pak, chrome_100_percent.pak, chrome_200_percent.pak, resources.pak, d3dcompiler_47.dll, libEGL.dll, libGLESv2.dll
- Whilst these are technically listed as optional, the browser is unlikely to function without these files.
- See https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki/Output-files-description-table-%28Redistribution%29 for details
* Ijwhost.dll (To support C++/CLI libraries in .NET Core/.Net 5.0, ijwhost was created as a shim for finding and loading the runtime.)
* CefSharp.Core.dll, CefSharp.dll, CefSharp.Core.Runtime.dll
CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe, CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.dll, CefSharp.BrowserSubProcess.Core.dll
- These are required CefSharp binaries that are the common core logic binaries of CefSharp.
* One of the following UI presentation libraries:
* CefSharp.WinForms.dll
* CefSharp.Wpf.dll
* CefSharp.OffScreen.dll
- NOTE: CefSharp does not currently support CEF sandboxing.
- By default `CEF` has it's own log file, `Debug.log` which is located in your executing folder. e.g. `bin`
For further help please read the following content:
- General Usage Guide https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki/General-Usage
- Minimal Example Projects showing the browser in action (https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp.MinimalExample)
- CefSharp GitHub https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp
- CefSharp's Wiki on github (https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki)
- FAQ: https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions
- Troubleshooting guide (https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/wiki/Trouble-Shooting)
- CefSharp vs Cef (https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#cefsharp-vs-cef)
- Got a CefSharp specific question ask it on https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/discussions
- Got a general javascript/css/html question ask on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cefsharp
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Regards,
@amaitland and the CefSharp Team