CefSharp is an easy way to embed a full-featured standards-compliant web browser into your C# or VB.NET app. CefSharp has browser controls for WinForms and WPF apps, and a headless (offscreen) version for automation projects too. CefSharp is based on Chromium Embedded Framework, the open source version of Google Chrome.

## Features

CefSharp embraces modern web standards, and supports HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5 audio/video elements. 3D content is supported via WebGL which uses OpenGL/DirectX for hardware accelerated rendering. CefSharp includes embedded modules for PDF, web page printing and the WebKit Inspector (developer tools).

You can programmatically execute Javascript, expose .Net classes to JavaScript, and receive callbacks when JavaScript events fire. You can programmatically call DevTools methods. You can use CefSharp to display embedded UI built with HTML5, or to display remote web content and web applications.

## Flavors and requirements

CefSharp is available in multiple flavors:

- CefSharp.WinForms provides browser UI Control for Windows Forms applications

- CefSharp.WPF provides browser UI Control for WPF applications

- CefSharp.Wpf.HwndHost provides browser UI Control for WPF applications that is the equivilent of hosting the WinForms version in WPF.

- CefSharp.OffScreen provides a "headless" browser control for automation projects

CefSharp supports rendering of embedded HTML content for HTML-based UI. CefSharp supports x86, x64 and ARM64 platforms (Windows Only).

CefSharp has a few dependencies:

- Microsoft .NET 4.5.2 or greater

- Visual C++ Runtime 2019 or greater. (Visual C++ 2022 Runtime is backwards compatible)

NuGet packages are available for WinForms, WPF and OffScreen. Stable binaries are released on NuGet, and contain everything you need to embed Chromium.

## License and source

CefSharp is an open source .NET wrapper around the fantastic Chromium Embedded Framework. And we provide full source code in C# and C++/CLI. CefSharp is BSD licensed, which means that it can be used for proprietary and free/open source applications.