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I'm currently designing an Angular SPA web client, backed with .NET5 REST. It's all in the same Visual Studio project, and it builds / runs fine.

I'm now investigating the possibility of distributing this as a windows desktop application. I was able to get Electron.NET to work, but it seems like a round-about solution (Node?!). I also didn't particularly like that the resources were visible/changeable in the distributed app.

This led me to investigate using WebView2 within WPF (Microsoft seems to be making a similar transition with MSTeams.) I've found some examples, but they only use:

1. solely remote content ("www.bing.com")
2. local content, but only img / html / etc
3. postmessage, etc to communicate using custom objects.

None of these is what I want. Well, that's not entirely true. I need #2 to load the Angular SPA, but when the WebView2-hosted Angular invokes HttpClient, I'd like to intercept that request in the host application and Route it to my REST Controllers. This would allow me to keep nearly all of my code intact, and presumably ship a smaller, more obfuscated exe.

Is this possible? obvious? Is my desire fundamentally flawed? (wouldn't be the first time)

I'm trying to create a release build for my Electron.Net application via electronize build /target win.

But during the process, my companies antivirus software blocks the process because of an "Unauthorized file encryption". It seems to happen when the build result is copied/moved to /bin/Desktop/.

Now I can't figure out what exactly I have to whitelist so the antivirus software keeps silent during the build.

According to the antivirus, the blocked script lies in c:/users/{user}/roaming/npm-cache/_npx/{some-random-cache-number}/node_module/electron-builder/node-modules/app-builder-bin/win/x64/

We've already created a whitelist for the whole folder c:/users/{user}/roaming/npm-cache/_npx/

Any tips are greatly appreciated since I'm not experienced in regards to antivirus software configuration and tracking down issues like this. Thanks!

Using Electron and ElectronNet I have an azure devops pipeline setup that will build the application on linux, windows and osx using the *-latest images to build. On linux its configured to output both an rpm and deb package however periodically the rpm package will fail to build with this output. When this happens it usually happens for a period of time and then stops happening without any intervention. I've even rerun the failed job the next day and the build is fully successful in both the rpm and deb builds. The deb build has never failed.

Really looking for any ideas on how to get it to be successful all the time or whats going wrong. My search-fu hasn't really turned up anything useful.

I launched a normal Asp.Net Core website by Electron.Net, But none of Js codes work. for example OwlCarousel and bootstrap dropdowns

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In my asp.net core 3 electron.net app, when I leave the default electron.manifest.json, it builds and runs well but fails to use icons.

Icons are set as content with copy always attribute.

However when I try to change the product Id and related information, it crashes.

In my Asp.NET Core 3 Electron.NET web application, I'm using Electron-Log npm package to carry out the logging.

I'm able to log in the script section like this:

On windows, when I run the electron.net app see a desktop-style window. However, on a Mac, I see that the same app is being shown in a browser.