topic Microsoft Edge Webview2 in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Microsoft Edge Webview2

MarcelSt-Germain — Mon, 02 May 2022 16:06:11 GMT

Hi, I wonder why we see many Microsoft Edge web view instance (six now) when the program takes forever when doing annotation cleanup. Only trying to clean annotations?

Does someone know?

Really hope that version 3 will improve speed since, for now, it's far, far, far slower than arcmap when cleaning annotations.

Re: Microsoft Edge Webview2

BradleyThompson1 — Mon, 02 May 2022 17:33:05 GMT

Marcel,

We migrated from CefSharp to WebView at Pro 2.9. At 2.9, the following windows use WebView2 to render:

Pop-Ups
Charts
Infographics tool & Marketing Wizard
The Named User Sign-In Dialogue
Workflow Manager's Job View
The Catalog View's Metadata Display

You should be seeing the various (~6) WebView2 windows running when you've interacted with any of the above in a project, and in normal circumstances they should not be interfering with performance, and I can't determine why any of these windows would be specific to annotation editing/cleanup. In the context of your annotation workflow, what does 'cleaning' mean? Are you using an Edit Annotation tool?

Re: Microsoft Edge Webview2

MarcelSt-Germain — Mon, 02 May 2022 18:38:50 GMT

Hi Bradley,

Only simple selection, moving or rotating annotations. It takes time, after selecting an annotation to gain control and moving it and, after doing so, take time to gain control to pass on the other one. Sometime I have time to eat or sleep before making the next selection and apply an action to it. If not enough, the mapseries sometime disappears after making a correction and I have to reactivate navigate to...

It's much slower with 2.9 than older version that was slower than arcmap but not as 2.9. When looking at the task manager I just see built up of these Microsoft Edge WebView2.