About CreateBrowserAsync in CefSharp.OffScreen

[DRV2539]

Hey, I am new to this, and I want to know more about the CreateBrowserAsync of CefSharp.OffScreen. I am doing a project which do not uses any UI. So, I want to know whether to use the CreateBrowserAsync or just CreateBrowser. I want to know more about this CreateBrowserAsync when it is used and when not.
Thank you. I can use any help provided.

[DRV2539]

Anything? @amaitland ?

[amaitland]

So, I want to know whether to use the CreateBrowserAsync or just CreateBrowser. I want to know more about this CreateBrowserAsync when it is used and when not.

The browser is always created async in reality, CreateBrowserAsync will wait for the browser to be initialized where as CreateBrowser will return immediately, and you need to use another means of waiting for the browser to load, e.g. different async call.

By default CreateBrowser will be called internally when you instantiate a ChromiumWebBrowser instance (unless you specify otherwise). This is a design mistake that I wish I could take back.

I often don't worry about browser creation and just page load

There are some examples at https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp.MinimalExample/blob/master/CefSharp.MinimalExample.OffScreen/Program.cs which are worth looking at.

The OffScreen implementation is used internally for testing of CefSharp.Dom, so there's lots of code there for reference.

https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp.Dom/blob/main/lib/PuppeteerSharp.Tests/DevToolsContextBaseTest.cs

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If you are creating a new project then https://github.com/hardkoded/puppeteer-sharp maybe a better alternative.

[DRV2539]

Hey @amaitland, got one more question I hope you can help me with that this is related but kind of not related to CEFSharp.
1] CEF have changed how the version was getting picked like till version 132 more of hard coded in cef_api_hash.h file.
2] But from version 133 it got different. I am working on migration from CefSharp to CefGlue (due to Cross-platform need) and was upgrading the CEFGlue version.
3] I was able to do it till version 132 and from 133 I am not able to do. I hope you can help explain something related to it, how you have done it in CEFSharp. I know both are different, but I can take some inspiration/understand it from your approach.
Thank you.

[amaitland]

See chromiumembedded/cef#3836 for details on the upstream changes.

CefSharp uses the C++ wrapper, as such I haven't had to make any changes as yet.