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# Win32 sample app

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This sample, **WebView2APISample**, embeds a WebView2 control within a Win32 application.

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This sample is built as a Win32 Visual Studio 2019 project.  It uses C++ in the native environment together with HTML/CSS/JavaScript in the WebView2 environment.  This sample showcases many of WebView2's event handlers and API methods that allow a native Win32 application to directly interact with a WebView, and vice versa.

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The solution file for this sample is in the parent directory: `SampleApps/WebView2Samples.sln`.  The solution file includes a copy of some of the other, sibling samples for other frameworks or platforms.

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To use this sample, see [Win32 sample app](https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/webview2/samples/webview2apissample).

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This is the main WebView2 sample.  The running **WebView2APISample** app window shows the WebView2 SDK version and also the WebView2 Runtime version and path.  The **WebView2APISample** app has several menus containing many menuitems that demonstrate a broad range of WebView2 APIs:

![The WebView2APISample sample app running](./documentation/screenshots/sample-app-screenshot.png)