How would I call WebView2 and other modern winmd features in VBA

Question

I would like to embed a modern WebView2 component (Edge Chromium Browser Control) inside an old-style VBA UserForm.

I surmise that I would need the following installed on the system:

• Edge Chromium Broswer
• Webview2 SDK

While I have the Edge Chromium Browser installed I am unsure how to install the Webview2 SDK outside of the context of a specific Visual Studio Project. To use it in a VBA solution it needs to reference some sort of global system-wide file?

Then, apparently the type library which contains the functionality we need to embed the Edge browser is Windows.Web.winmd. I presume I would need to "reference" that in some way but I am not sure how...

Deuteranopia

Does this answer your question? Late Binding vs Early Binding in VBA - (CreateObject() vs New) – Gang

@Gang do the winmd files behave the same to VBA as COM controls as long as you can reference a file? – Deuteranopia

Your question is "I presume I would need to "reference" that in some way but I am not sure how..." - and the link explains the two possibilities - early and late binding. i.e. to use a control on the form – Gang

I am well acquainted with early and late binding. What string should I use for late binding via CreateObject? I tried Windows.Web but this failed? – Deuteranopia

Answer 1

The closest thing I have found to answering this question is the following set of dlls:

http://vbrichclient.com/#/en/Downloads.htm

Deuteranopia