Recently there was a customer who reported an issue (Details http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsautotest/thread/e977a27a-bb67-4919-af84-1d06ce891047/). In his application there was a TabItem who's Visibility property was set to Collapsed. Due to this AutomationElement.FromPoint (UIA api...

Below is a simple XAML code. <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition MaxWidth="400" MinWidth="250" Width="250" /> <!--Column 0--> <ColumnDefinition Width="2" /> <!--Column 1--> <ColumnDefinition Width="*" /> <!--Column 2--> </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>...

Many of the customers have reported that they see NotSupportedException/NotImplementedException being thrown when debugging a Codeduitest. The NotSupportedException/NotImplementedException here in innocuous and is expected. The reason why we see debugger breaking at this exception is because the...

In this post I will be describing what does NextSibling means in context of search. But before doing that I will mention the ways in which search can happen. There are two ways (exclusive) in which search can happen:- a)    Plugin search :- By plugin search I mean that the respective plugin...

There is no workaround in recording. But you can do hand coding to make things work during playback. If you just want to Click the control with both middle and left button  then you can do this by following steps 1) Record the scenario of click using only one Mouse button. Say Left 2) The code that...

There has been questions regarding how do you search a particular control giving ControlName or ControlId etc. So I thought it is a good opportunity to blog about it. I will be covering the following :- a) Which plugin gets picked up for which controls b) Introducing MSAA plugin c)  Introducing...

Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Audience(s): Pro Dev/Programmer. Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event...

Test method SomeProject.CodedUITest1.CodedUITestMethod1 threw exception: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.PlaybackFailureException: Cannot perform 'Click' on the control. Additional Details: TechnologyName: 'MSAA' Name: 'Foo' ControlType: 'Client' ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices...

One of our customer asked us this “Coded UI test tool is not recording the steps when IE user session is different from logged in user. I have opened the IE session with test user(Domain\testuser) and Coded ui test builder with logged in user. When I try to record the steps using Coded UI Test builder...