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How to automatically accept Chrome's "Always open these types of links in the associated app" dialogs in Selenium

I'm automating tests using Selenium and C# and I need to open an external app from the browser. The problem is, I always get this notification and it blocks the test execution.
Does anyone know how to deal with this?

Chrome stores the settings for the acceptance of protocol handlers in the user profile. When running Chrome from Selenium, Chrome doesn't seem to use the standard Chrome user profile by default, and instead uses some default settings that are not persisted.
To get around this, you can launch Chrome from the command line manually and manually specify a new --user-data-dir=c:\foo\bar profile location. (Point it to a new/empty directory and Chrome will populate it for you.)
Using this manually-launched browser, navigate to the page you need to interact with, activate the link, click the "always open" checkbox, and run the program once.
Next, close Chrome and save a copy of the entire new user profile directory. When you run your Selenium tests, make sure to always pass Chrome the same command line options pointing it to that user profile. These settings are now persisted, so the link will open without user intervention in the future. (This question may be of help to feed the right command line args to Chrome.)
For repeatable tests, you will probably want to save a static copy of this profile and redeploy it whenever you launch Selenium.

If you are using Javascript+Selenium or WebdriverJS then use this :
chromeOptions = {
'args': ['--test-type',
'--start-maximized',
'use-fake-ui-for-media-stream',],
'prefs': {
protocol_handler: {
excluded_schemes: {
'yourprotocolname': false
}
}
},
};

How do I launch two urls into different tabs of the same window in IE?

I'm on IE11, Win 8.1. If I set my default browser as IE, when I launch two URLs from an external program, or by running Start "http://microsoft.com" in a PoSh window, I get one window with two tabs.
However, if I manually invoke iexplore like "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" http://www.microsoft.com/ then I get two separate windows.
I looked in the registry at how the browser is registered, and believed it would be using the command at HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\IE.HTTP\shell\open\command, however that is set to "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" %1.
Passing -framemerging appears to have no effect.
So what do I need to do when invoking iexplore.exe to allow it to launch tabs instead of new windows (which is what the Tab settings in IE are set to). I need to be able to do this without IE being the default browser.

Remotely Open Default WebBrowser and access its methods, properties and values

What I'm trying to do is to, from a Web Service (WCF), give a remote computer (the Web Service Consumer) the instruction to open its default Web Browser (be it Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc.), navigate to a certain web page and keep monitoring the events of that browser so that I can capture a certain value from the Document Title at a certain point, and do stuff with it.
I'm already able to send the command to open Internet Explorer and navigate to a URL, from the Web Service to the remote computer (my consumer), but I don't like the approach since I can't monitor the Document.Title property for changes nor access its value at any given time. Here is an example:
using System.Diagnostics;
public void DoIt();
{
Process batchProcess = new Process();
batchProcess.StartInfo.FileName = "iexplore.exe";
batchProcess.StartInfo.Arguments = "http://whatever.com";
batchProcess.Start();
}
This opens up Internet Explorer on the remote machine and navigates to the Url I give it, but I can't keep watch for the Browser's Events or Properties Values....
Can somebody help? ;-)

I don't think you can access information in one application (the web browser) from another (the WCF client) like that, and it's certainly not possible to do it without knowing what the user's default browser is.
You might have more luck using a WebBrowser control (WPF or Windows Forms), which embeds Internet Explorer's engine into the application and allows you access to the document title.

How to automatically bypass logon message on RDP?

I'm trying to log in to a server through remote desktop using c#. I'm able to initiate the connection using the AxMSTSCLib and the code below. However, I'm stuck on our domain's security notice.
When logging in manually it requires you to click ok on the notice before the log in completes. I have been unable to find anyway to interact with this OK button through my application. I've tried variations of SendKeys, sending key events using interop services, finding the cursor position and sending a mouse click event...
I'm running out of ideas here.
rdp.Server = server;
rdp.Domain = domain;
rdp.UserName = userName;
IMsTscNonScriptable secured = (IMsTscNonScriptable)rdp.GetOcx();
secured.ClearTextPassword = password;
rdp.StartConnected = 1;
rdp.Connect();
Thanks

Well, there is a way to do what you ask.
You will need to download a copy of Windows 7 Embedded Standard (WES7 wSP1).
WES7 contains something that other editions of Windows 7 do not - a Dialog Filter.
It runs as a service, and allows you to specify certain window events to be performed automatically, without user interaction.
The Dialog Filter Editor is installed with the Windows Embedded Standard 7 tools in the EmbeddedSDK\bin folder.
All you have to do is:
Add the service to your Windows, by copying the necessary Dialog Filter files to C:\Windows\System32. There are x86 and x64 versions, so choose the correct architecture.
Register the files, and enable the service to run automatically.
Add the ConfigurationList.xml file created with the editor to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\DialogFilter.
This location is hidden by defeault, so make sure to show hidden files and unhide protected system files in Windows Explorer.
I've actually created the ConfigurationList.xml file already, so you can simply copy the following code and save it as "ConfigurationList.xml":
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<CL:dialogs xmlns:CL="urn:Dialogs">
<dialog>
<ProcessImageName>rundll32.exe</ProcessImageName>
<Title>Remote Desktop Connection</Title>
<Class>#32770</Class>
<Buttons>
<Button>OK</Button>
<Button>Cancel</Button>
<Button>Close</Button>
</Buttons>
<Actions>
<Action>OK</Action>
</Actions>
</dialog>
</CL:dialogs>
As you can see, the action is set to press the OK button automatically in the RDP dialog that pops up when making an RDP connection.
More info regarding the Dialog Filter directly from MS:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ff794135(v=winembedded.60).aspx

Just found a much easier way to do this:
There's a free small app called ClickOff, which works in a very similar manner to Windows Embedded Standard 7 DialogFilter.
You can download ClickOff v1.90 here.
After you install ClickOff, you can define which window to capture, and which button inside it to click. Only thing is that you must add it to your startup apps.
I have already created a clickoff.lst file which clicks OK on the 30-sec RDP timeout popup window. The file should be placed in C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\ClickOff. Here's the contents of the file:
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WINDOWTITLE="Remote Desktop Connection" BUTTONTEXT="OK" MSGTEXT="CompName\\UserName wants to connect to this machine.\r\n\r\nClick OK to disconnect your session immediately or click cancel to stay connected.\r\n\r\nOtherwise, you will be disconnected in 30 seconds." BUTTONID="1" MSGID="65535" DLGID="0" CLKEVENT="17" CLKMETHOD="3" TIMESCLICKED="0" WAIT="0" BPOSX="0" BPOSY="0" ;
Cheers.

How to open html file with anchor(#) in C# with default browser

I am trying to open a contextual help file in c#.
When i specify no anchor, it works perfectly.
Process.Start("C:/Help/Help.htm")
But when i specify anchor, it does not open
Process.Start("C:/Help/Help.htm#_Toc342057538")
Internally it changes '#' to '%23' and the path becomes "c:\Help.htm%23_Toc342057538" which browser is unable to recognize.
Browser is successfully opening the path "c:\Help.htm#_Toc342057538"
How to stop this automatic conversion by Process.Start. The same behavior is observed, if i give the anchor label as another argument, or use Uri class.
EDIT
Same behavior is observed, when i enter the string in Window Run. Following command also convert # to %23, which browser cannot recognize.
chrome c:/Help.htm#_Toc342057538

On my Windows 7 system, both of the following open C:\Help\Help.htm in Internet Explorer and scroll to the _Toc342057538 anchor:
Process.Start("iexplore", "file://C:/Help/Help.htm#_Toc342057538");
Process.Start("iexplore", #"C:\Help\Help.htm#_Toc342057538");
For Firefox and Chrome, only the file protocol seems to work:
Process.Start("firefox", "file://C:/Help/Help.htm#_Toc342057538");
Process.Start("chrome", "file://C:/Help/Help.htm#_Toc342057538");

Try this out. I just did it myself and working in internet explorer
string s = "file:///D:/tmp/test.html%23test";
s = uri.UnescapeDataString(s);
Process.Start(s);
Please let me know if it is working or not for you.