[Problem/Bug]: WebView2 is not appearing in VS 2017 toolbox

[AndrWeisR]

What happened?

I have installed Microsoft.Web.WebView2 1.0.2592.51 into my existing project in VS Community 2017 (version 15.9.60), and it shows as installed and appears in the list of project references, but I cannot get it to appear in the toolbox.

I've checked this, it's correct: "In Visual Studio 2017, by default, WebView2 isn't displayed in the Toolbox. To enable WebView2 to be displayed in the Toolbox, select Tools > Options > General > and set the Automatically Populate Toolbox setting to True."

I've rebuilt the solution, closed and re-opened VS, but still no luck.

Importance

Moderate. My app's user experience is affected, but still usable.

Runtime Channel

Stable release (WebView2 Runtime)

Runtime Version

No response

SDK Version

No response

Framework

Winforms

Operating System

Windows 10

OS Version

19045.4651

Repro steps

As per "What happened".

Repros in Edge Browser

No, issue does not reproduce in the corresponding Edge version

Regression

No, this never worked

Last working version (if regression)

No response

[sandeepchads]

Can you please check whether installing the pre-release SDK for wv2 helps. Steps that you may want to follow:

1. Go to your webview2 solution, right click & click on Manage nuget package

2. Ensure include pre-release checkbox is selected. Update or install WebView2

3. Restart Visual Studio and Click on the solution where you wish to include WebView toolbox.

4. Click on View -> Toolbox and you should find the webview2 toolbox.