I have created a C# WinForms program with a WebView2 control to show an Angular user interface. The Angular frontend was created in Visual Studio Code and so far I used npm to serve the Angular frontend for development. But in the end the target is that my C# backend can start the Angular frontend by itself to show the user interface. I already managed to do this by the following code, which simply starts the npm service in the background to make the frontend accessible for the WebView2 control: string angularProjectPath = @"C:\workspace\software\mcinspect_cs\sources\Client\mcinspect\src"; // Set the command to start the Angular development server string command = "npm start"; // Start the Angular development server process ProcessStartInfo psi = new ProcessStartInfo { FileName = "cmd.exe", RedirectStandardInput = true, UseShellExecute = false, WorkingDirectory = angularProjectPath, CreateNoWindow = true }; g_uiProcess = Process.Start(psi); g_uiProcess.StandardInput.WriteLine(command); But with this approach, the user of my program needs to have npm installed on his computer to use the software. I was wondering if there is an alternative way to provide a webserver by my C# project to serve the user interface. I saw there are some Angular Nugets available, but I'm not sure if I can use one of these to do this. I would prefer a solution where the serve of my frontend is fully integrated into my C# project to show the user interface. What is the right way to do it? I used the code in the description to serve my frontend. Continue reading...
