Selenium 2.0 WebDriver with Visual Studio, C#, & IE

http://www.joecolantonio.com/2012/07/31/getting-started-using-selenium-2-0-webdriver-for-ie-in-visual-studio-c/

http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_b6142fb401017oo6.html

Download Selenium C# Client Drivers
The first step is to download the C# dlls from Selenium's web site.You'll also want to download the Internet Explorer Driver Server:

Configure Visual Studio to work with Selenium

Time to Code!

Cool!! Now that we have the Selenium dlls referenced in our project, it's time to test the configuration by running a quick test.

At the top of your project code after the last 'using' namespace add the following Selenium namespaces:


Run the test. joecolantonio.com should appear.

IE Developer Toolbar

If you are going to be scripting against IE you'll want to install the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar. (Those familiar with QTP are aware that this is similar QTP's spy tool)

Using the IE Dev's Arrow feature allows you to spy on an element's attributes. You can then use those attributes in your Selenium code to help identify fields in you web application.

For example if we want to navigate to www.joecolantonio.com/HpSupport.html and select a value from the 'Select your tool & Version' we would point the IE Dev arrow to the field to see its attributes:

WTF's to look out for

If you getting the following error:

"InvalidOperationException was unhandled – unexpected error launching Internet Explorer.Protected Mode setting are not the same for all zones.

Enable Protected Mode must be set to the same value (enabled or disabled) for all zones"

If you are getting the following error:

"DriverServiceNotFoundException was unhandled: The file … \IEDriverServer.exe does not exist. The driver can be downloaded at"

Make sure that you downloaded the IEDriverServer.exe and also that you have the correct path specified in your code