How to get the installed version number

[nmoinvaz]

What is the best way to get the version number for the installed version of Edge-chromium? Is there a registry key somewhere that you would recommend reading? I think there is some value possibly getting that information from IWebView2WebView, however in my use case I need it before IWebView2WebView is initialized.

[liminzhu]

I don't think we have a WebView API for that, but a way (not saying it's the best) to get version number would be calling window.navigator.userAgent with ExecuteScript to get the UA string.

[david-risney]

We generally try to avoid exposing the version numbers since we want folks to use feature detection rather than hardcoding version checks. What is the use case you referenced?

[nmoinvaz]

We try to make that information available to our platform. If we wanted to require a minimum version of Edge chromium, then we would need a way to get the version (I mean we could use the version of the WebView2Loader.dll) but also need to get the version of chromium being used -- then we would need that information before creating a IWebView2 instance.

Also I want to be able to put the version information in the debug log.

[nmoinvaz]

In IE it was possible to get this information via the registry "Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer" using the svcVersion or Version keys.

[lingamy]

Hi Nathan, thanks for submitting the feedback! We’ve added new APIs GetWebView2BrowserVersionInfo and get_BrowserVersionInfo for getting the browser version and the corresponding channel name in the new SDK update. Make sure you update the SDK and use the canary channel for testing.