Retool with Cefsharp for c# plugin

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Part of our application involves users working with a c# plugin for a desktop app. I have seen Cedsharp https://cefsharp.github.io/ used as a way to use web apps within a C# WPF app. It’s essentially a web browser with some libraries to call C# methods from JavaScript.

Would I be able to use retool with a Cefsharp c# app? Is there any way to access the functions and events that I create in retool so that I could use Cedsharp to bind those JavaScript actions to C#?

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Hello @benjaminfortunato!

Unfortunately I do not believe that any C# plugins work inside of a Retool app :sweat:

But you can use Retool's embedding features to display a Retool app inside of what sounds like a mini browser page that is running with C#.

You can read more about this functionality here as it includes information on how to pass data from your embedded Retool app to the parent app.

Where you could then access functions/data/events to bind with C#!

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Awesome, that is exactly the functionality I was looking for.

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Great to hear!

Glad we could help :smile: happy coding!