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I have a WPF based project and I am using cefsharp 71 in it. On some of the target machines an error is coming "Can not load file or assembly 'CefSharp.Core.dll' or one of its dependencies".

I am aware that this needs VC++ libraries to be installed on every system. Also I am converting my app to UWP app using visual studio 2019 Windows Application Packaging Project. Below are the following questions for which I need answers.

  1. Which version of VC++ redistributable do I need to integrate in my app.
  2. How can I integrate VC++ redistrubatle in my app ( WPF based app being converted to UWP using Visual studio Windows Application Packaging Project.)
  3. Can I include some dlls instead of integrating VC++ ?
  4. Which version of .Net Framework should be pre installed ?
  5. How can I integrate this in the appxbundle file itself ?
Akshay Verma
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  • The CefSharp requirements are listed per branch at https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp#release-branches – amaitland Sep 27 '19 at 06:45
  • Hi, You may not be able to package VC++ into an `appxbundle` file, it is an environment dependency. – Richard Zhang - MSFT Sep 27 '19 at 08:13
  • @RichardZhang-MSFT But I can't ask everyone to download the VC++ on their system. ? Anything that I can include as dll to resolve this VC++ issue ? – Akshay Verma Sep 27 '19 at 08:46
  • @AkshayVerma Hi, If you can find a complete list of dll references, this is possible. – Richard Zhang - MSFT Sep 27 '19 at 09:24
  • A quick search and https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/using-visual-c-runtime-in-centennial-project/ looks promising. I'd also suggest you tag your question `desktop-bridge` to get a wider audience. See also https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/issues/2642 – amaitland Sep 29 '19 at 04:26
  • [I would try static linking to be honest](https://stackoverflow.com/a/37402/129130) - if you have regular updates and your use of the runtime is light. Never tried for a scenario like this though. Use the old Dependency Walker application to verify that dependencies are gone once you rebuild with static link. Test with release mode binary. Side effects possible I suppose. – Stein Åsmul Oct 03 '19 at 22:23

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