Using WebView2 in Windows PE?

[mtniehaus]

Windows PE (used to install Windows OSes) contains only the IE11 engine and MSHTA.EXE; we would like to use a "real" browser control and have been experimenting with WebView2 but not having much luck running it in Windows PE. When starting to load, we get a COMException:

Any idea what we're running into here? This is an x64 OS with no wow64 support (so no ability to run 32-bit code).

The same Windows PE OS can use CefSharp (.NET 8 + WPF) without any issues.

[victorhuangwq]

WebView2 on Windows PE is not currently officially supported. That being said, could @lflores-ms take a look if you have time?

[icnocop]

Any updates or workarounds? Thank you.