Programmatically find a message box and generate a click on a button

Question

I am trying to automate winform application testing. I run it in the same process as the test code, so it’s pretty easy to find .Net controls and simulate user actions on them. However, I got a little stuck in the message box (created using the standard MessageBox.Show method). How can I grab it and simulate a button being pressed?

Answer 1

You will probably have to use WinAPI calls (FindWindowEx, ect) and send LMB messages down and down to the button handle.

Answer 2

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public class UserInterrogator : IUserInterrogator
{
    private Form owner;

    public UserInterrogator(Form owner)
    {  this.owner = owner;    }

    public Font GetFontFromUser()  // member of the IUserInterrogator interface
    {
        FontDialog fd = new FontDialog();
        fd.ShowDialog( owner );
        return fd.Font;
    }
}

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

- AutoHotKey.

Answer 6

You can use autoit script.

But I propose to separate the GUI and the implementation , because the basic principle of unit testing is the “unit”, where the unit is a class that is separate from other classes or the real world.
This principle gives you a good class design and helps to avoid software eruptions and many other useful things.