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Using the new WebView2 AllowHostInputProcessing Keyboard Mapping Feature

Today - Hood River, Oregon

If you've used the WebVIew2 control for a UI interactive Hybrid active you've probably run into some odd keyboard behavior, where some keys cannot be captured properly in the host application or are not forwarded quite the way they normally behave. In the newer releases of the WebView SDK there's a new option called `AllowHostInputProcessing` that allows for forwarding keyboard events more aggressively to the host which fixes some Windows behaviors and introduces some new issues.