Articles UI Automation

On this page you will find an overview of all articles that I have written since 1997. The more recent articles deal with software development with .NET (C#, Visual Studio, LINQ, WPF, Silverlight, WCF RIA Services, ...) in particular. The older articles were often written for the purposes of courses or demonstrations at my computerclub and these articles are mostly about photo editing, databases, Windows, Office, Delphi and PHP.

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.NET - UI automation with the WPF UIAutomation framework

WPF UIAutomation is a framework from Microsoft to automate Windows applications. In this article I will demonstrate a lot of features (invoking button clicks, focusing controls, entering data, sending keystrokes, subscribing to events, ...) and compare it with the open-source project White.

- English - .NET, UI Automation, WPF, WinForms

.NET - UI automation with the White framework

This short article covers the most important features of the open-source White framework and the Microsoft UISpy tool. White can be used for UI automation and my C# .NET application demonstrates how to automate the Windows calculator by sending keystrokes, clicking on buttons and menus, pressing function keys, accessing textboxes, ...

- English - .NET, UI Automation, WPF, WinForms