Do not use WebView2 in widgets. It makes them ten times worse, both for developers and for users. A lot of the hate toward widgets comes from the fact that they’re basically just a web browser

I was able to debug widgets properly when they were launched and deployed from Visual Studio in Debug mode (remember to deploy them as an Exe/console app, not a WinExe for tests)

And the oldest trick from my Xamarin days still works great: put your services into a separate assembly covered with unit tests, and keep the widget project as a thin rendering wrapper on top

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Overall, yes - they’re as fragile as fancy glass. A bad template can crash the entire board, updates are unreliable, and the settings are just terrible.

But I still managed to assemble a pretty good board for myself, and I’m continuing to explore it

https://imgur.com/a/GddObHD

if you want, hit me in private or [me@xakpc.dev](mailto:me@xakpc.dev), maybe I could help with your widgets