
The preview channels of Microsoft Edge are required in order to use a prerelease version of the WebView2 SDK. The minimum required version is 82.0.488.0.

Visual Studio will prompt you later, when you open a particular. If you are installing Visual Studio, you can accept the defaults for now you can click Install, and then decline installing the Workloads at this time. The WebView2 samples are designed for Microsoft Visual Studio, not Microsoft Visual Studio Code. If a sample was created using Visual Studio 2019, you should build and run the sample in Visual Studio 2019, before using the sample in Visual Studio 2022. Most of the WebView2 samples were created and tested using Visual Studio 2019. Install Visual Studio 2015 or later, such as Visual Studio Professional 2019, or Visual Studio 2022 Community edition. Some Getting Started tutorials point here for preliminary setup steps, and then add platform-specific or project-specific setup steps. This article covers general-purpose setup of your development environment for WebView2 development.
