Finding Objects Dynamically with Coded UI

Mapping objects with visual studios coded UI can be cumbersome and hard to manage one way to make your fame work a little lighter is to make a class that does this for you and even better creating a more generic method that will handle all the objects for you. The way I accomplish this idea is with the following code snippets

   public T  GetControlGeneric<T>(string propertyValue, string property,  PropertyExpressionOperator propertyExpressionOperator = PropertyExpressionOperator.Contains) where T:WinControl
        {
            return GetControlGenericWithParent<T>(propertyValue, property, ThickClient, propertyExpressionOperator);
        }
        public T GetControlGenericWithParent<T>(string propertyValue, string property, UITestControl parent, PropertyExpressionOperator propertyExpressionOperator = PropertyExpressionOperator.Contains)where T:WinControl
        {
            T ctrl = (T)Activator.CreateInstance(typeof(T), new object[] { parent });
            ctrl.SearchProperties.Add(property, propertyValue, propertyExpressionOperator);
            return ctrl;
        }
-Sarah

So you ran a coded UI Teast and Now IE isn't working

If for some reason you start to get the following error when you open IE

and you have recently ran a coded UI test try the following

1. Got to Internet options
2. Click on the Connections Tab
3. Click the lan settings btn
4. And Uncheck the box "Use a proxy ect"
5. Try to use IE Again

This should resolve the problem

-Sarah

So Your Coded UI Stopped Working and You Don't Know Why

If your coded UI test suddenly stopped working (the test can no longer find objects on the screen you keep getting null reference exceptions) your may be a victim of copy local =ture. If some one (or yourself) has been adding or removing the coded UI dlls they may have accidently set copy local to ture. To get you test back up and running you simply flip it back to false.

-Sarah