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C# Download a complete weired HTML page

I'm sorry if this question has allready been answered , but I litterally spent more than two weeks searching the Internet for a solution to my issue.
Now , I definitly do not perform the best google searches , and it might seem that my question has several effective answers on the Internet. but I really tried every single solution that I found , without any positive results.
What i'm trying to do is simple , and I did it successfully on many websites :
Navigating to a website using WebBrowser (1).
Waiting for everything to load properly (document completed event).
Download the page using DocumentText property (1).
(1) : I also use WebClient from time to time.
And there it is , I get the html page , and I can exploit it anyway I like. The issue is with a particular website that I cannot obtain the full content inspite of using all the different solutions that I found. I suspected the fact that this page might need to load several scripts before getting the full content. Yet again, I read that WebBrowser does run all the necessarry scripts before triggering the " completed " event, so , apparently , that's not the issue. The page that i'm inquiring about is : http://www.coolmod#com/tarjetas-graficas-nvidia-pci-express
I tried , after that the WebBrowser loads the entire page , looking for random elements using GetElementByID property and checking if I get a null result. It appears that when I try getting an element that does not belong to the products list , i'm successful. But , whenever I try to get an element that belongs to the list it self , I always get a null. Which means , the list it self does not load. and I really don't know why. By the way , I do not prevent the WebBrowser. Navigate () from delivering multiple responses , I allow it to give as many feedbacks as possible , and still , the product list does not load , even when I pass the cookies. I Even tried copying all the content of the document and pasting it through the clipboard. Here is a simple example of what I try to do :
private void catalogueDownload()
{
System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser wb = new System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser();
wb.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true;
wb.DocumentCompleted += new WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventHandler(Catalogue_DocumentCompleted);
wb.Navigate("http://www.coolmod.com/tarjetas-graficas-nvidia-pci-express");
}
public void Catalogue_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
{
var wb = sender as System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser;
string output = wb.DocumentText;
File.WriteAllText("testing.html", output);
}
Thanks for giving up your time to read all this.

System.Windows.Forms.WebBrowser is a bit outdated, If I were you, I would consider using an external library for that, Selenium would be my 1st choice, given it has all the necessary integrations with .NET Framework (and a lot of other languages)

An error occurred executing the click atom

Using C# and Selenium, I am building an automated script where I, amongst other things, try to select a certain value from a droplist (value being specified in a .csv-file). I get the error;
"An error occurred executing the click atom (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)"
I have no idea what a click atom is, much less how to fix it... Any help is appreciated greatly!
thanks in advance
this is the code for the droplist:
public bool isellHOSelectAdultsDroplist(string adults)
{
writeToLog(String.Format("Selecting adults from drop list"), this.GetType().Name);
String xpathString = HO_ADULT_SELECTION;
if(GpoExplicitWaitXpathElement(xpathString, 3, 5))
{
IWebElement dropListObjects = webDriver.FindElement(By.XPath(xpathString));
writeToLog(String.Format("DEBUG: Trying to click on appropriate number of adults..."), this.GetType().Name);
selectValueFromAdultDropList(dropListObjects, adults);
return true;
}
else
{
return false;
}
}
//...and this is my select-method
private void selectValueFromAdultDropList(IWebElement dropListObjects, string adults)
{
SelectElement manipulateDroplistObject = new SelectElement(dropListObjects);
manipulateDroplistObject.SelectByValue(adults);
String selection = manipulateDroplistObject.SelectedOption.Text;
int numberOfElements = manipulateDroplistObject.Options.Count;
writeToLog("Number of elements in Adult Droplist: " + numberOfElements, this.GetType().Name);
writeToLog("Selection from adult droplist: " + selection, this.GetType().Name);
}

I'll answer the specific question you asked, which is, "What is a click atom?" There is quite a bit of functionality in the IE driver, and the implementation of this functionality rests on three pillars.
First is IE's COM interfaces. These are the objects and methods that have been used to automate various parts of IE for more than a decade.
The second technology is so-called "native events." That is, using OS-level mechanisms to perform user interactions, like key presses and mouse clicks. On Windows, that means using the Windows SendMessage API. Almost anytime you're using the keyboard or the mouse with the IE driver, you're using native events by default.
Finally, a good portion of the IE driver functionality is implemented using JavaScript functions, which are shared by all of the browsers. These functions are known as "automation atoms".
One of the very few exceptions to using native events for mouse operations is in selecting an <option> element from a <select> element. Since IE doesn't give discoverable dimensions to <option> elements, the IE driver is forced to simulate the click action via JavaScript. This means using the automation atom for the click action. In your case, something must've gone wrong executing that JavaScript, which was faithfully reported as a "failure to execute the click atom." Without more detail, including sample HTML pages to reproduce the issue, it will be exceedingly difficult to diagnose the root cause of the issue.
It's at this point I will echo the call to update to the latest IE driver. Some of the code in this area has been overhauled, and at the least, it should be possible to extract more precise errors from failure cases with a more recent driver.

Automating Website/Web forms using C# in Firefox, using Visual Studio 2010?

If anyone can help me I'd appreciate it.
I'm working on a C# file in Visual Studio 2010 that I need to be able to test a website with multiple form pages, for the purpose of an example we'll refer to them all as 1.aspx, 2.aspx etc.
I've my code that fills out the first page (1.aspx) fine, and click the "continue" button to load the next page, but when it gets to 2.aspx it won't continue to fill out the form.
We'll say an element on the 2.aspx page is called "DOB". On trying to run from the start (I've all the pages form data in the one .cs file) I get an error like "DOB does not exist in the current context".
Anyone's insight into this would be really appreciated!

In all honesty, it sounds like you might be better off using the WatiN Framework. I have been writing automation with it for years and the way that it is implemented and its ease-of-use make it worth the slight learning curve.
Just to add a bit more to the answer; and yes, this is pseudo-code:
[Test]
public void Should_attach_to_browser()
{
ExecuteTest(browser =>
{
browser.GoTo(NewWindowUri);
browser.Link(Find.First()).Click();
var findBy = Find.ByTitle("New window");
var newWindow = Browswer.AttachTo(browser.GetType(), findBy);
newWindow.Close();
});
}
In the code above, note the Browser.AttachTo(browser.GetType(), findBy); method. Based on what I have understood of your question, the .AttachTo() method would work well since you would be able to take the focus off the current form and assign it to the next in your work/execution flow.

watin not working with live.com

I am trying to use watin to mimic login to live.com using c#. code is below.
IE myIE = new IE("http://login.live.com/");
myIE.TextField(Find.ByName("login")).TypeText("abc#abc.com");
myIE.TextField(Find.ByName("passwd")).TypeText("1234");
myIE.Button(Find.ByValue("Sign in")).Click();
However it always failed to find the textfield:
WatiN.Core.Exceptions.ElementNotFoundException: Could not find INPUT (hidden) or INPUT (password) or INPUT (text) or INPUT (textarea) or TEXTAREA element tag matching criteria: Attribute 'name' equals 'login' at http://login.live.com/
The sample code in home page of http://watin.org/ works fine for www.google.com.
Did I miss something or is there anything special on http://login.live.com that prevents watin to work?
PS: I am running windows 7 64bit. VS 2008 with .net 3.5

You're hitting issues because the email field you're trying to type in is an HTML5 element.
Create the TextFieldExtended class as defined in this SO question: WatiN support for HTML5 tags
Then your code will be like the below:
ie.GoTo("http://login.live.com/");
ie.ElementOfType<TextFieldExtended>(Find.ByName("login")).TypeText("thisismyusername#here.com");
ie.TextField(Find.ByName("passwd")).TypeText("thisismypassword");
ie.Button(Find.ByValue("Sign in")).Click();
Tested on Watin2.1, IE9, Win7-64.

You may want to try this: I got it to work on my end:
ie.Div(Find.ByCustom("innertext","someone#example.com")).Click();
ie.TextField(Find.ById("i0116")).TypeText("hello");
ie.TextField(Find.ById("i0118")).Click();
ie.TextField(Find.ById("i0118")).TypeText("Hello!");
I recommend using this test Recorder. It will give you the elemnt names to use in your source:
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/19180/WatiN-Test-Recorder
Edit:
I was also able to get this to work when finding by divID.
ie.Element(Find.ById("idDiv_PWD_UsernameExample")).Click()

CodedUI Test: Keyboard.SendKeys not working

I'm trying to use the CodedUI Test feature of Visual Studio 2010.
I've got a problem while replaying the various actions for one of my html component. The Keyboard.SendKeys generated do not work (like if there was no input).
The code generated is :
// Type '{F4}{F4}{F2}titre{Enter}' in 'SaisieSD_DS' custom control
Keyboard.SendKeys(uISaisieSD_DSCustom, this.Params.UISaisieSD_DSCustomSendKeys, ModifierKeys.None);
If I replace the call to Keyboard.SendKeys by a call to System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.SendWait, it does work.
I was thinking about a problem due to a loss of focus. However, if i do something like uISaisieSD_DSCustom.SetFocus(), it doesn't change the behavior.
Do you have any idea ?
thx.

Have you tried
uISaisieSD_DSCustom.WaitForReady()
Or one of the other waitfors?
Is it failing on this line? Or is it failing afterward due to this not working correctly?
You can also use the following to wait for all threads to complete before proceeding:
Playback.PlaybackSettings.WaitForReadyLevel = WaitForReadyLevel.AllThreads;
Keyboard.SendKeys(uISaisieSD_DSCustom, this.Params.UISaisieSD_DSCustomSendKeys, ModifierKeys.None);
Playback.PlaybackSettings.WaitForReadyLevel = WaitForReadyLevel.UIThreadOnly;
Just make sure you include the last line to turn it back to UIThreadOnly, or it will slow everything way down.

Visual Studio CodedUI Test searches for a control and sends those keys to it. In your case the control is 'uISaisieSD_DSCustom'.
You can try using:
Keyboard.SendKeys(this.Params.UISaisieSD_DSCustomSendKeys);
OR
Keyboard.SendKeys("{F4}{F4}{F2}titre{Enter}");

After typing the URL if we want to send the enter key then the below code works in Coded UI
Keyboard.SendKeys("{Enter}");