Re: How can I automate a task like open browser and click a button?

Lior,

I think that what you're trying to do can be accomplished with frames, but
it's not very elegant.  Did you try posting the search request to the search
site yourself or using a querystring with the search request as a link with
a target for a new window?  With this type of solution you can try using a
regular newsgroup since it's not .NET specific.  It can probably be done
with straight html and javascript.

Another thing you could try is scraping (HttpWebRequest) the target site
server side and returning the results to the client - parsing that
information will have maintenance issues, though.

-- Brian

On 12/25/06, Lior Levy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am trying to automate a task that someone is doing like go to search
> engine type a string clicks the search button save the results in a loop.
> It must be done from a web form.
>
> What are these commands? Can they help me?
> aximp c:\windows\system\shdocvw.dll
> tlbimp mshtml.tlb
>
> Thanks,
> Lior.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shawn Wildermuth
> Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 12:09 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WEB] How can I automate a task like open browser and
> click a button?
>
> First, please don't cross post your questions to multiple mailing lists
> until you fail to get an answer on one.
>
> TO launch a new browser window is easy, just launch iexplorer.exe (or your
> favorite browser) with the desitanation as a commandline parameter.  But
> setting a value and clicking it could be much harder.  What are you trying
> to accomplish?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shawn Wildermuth
> Wildermuth Consulting Services, LLC
> http://adoguy.com
> C# MVP, MCSD.NET, Author and Speaker
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of building .NET applications targeted for the Web
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lior Levy
> Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 4:55 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DOTNET-WEB] How can I automate a task like open browser and
> click
> a button?
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> How can I automate a task like open a new browser add a text to a textBox
> and click a button from a webForm?
>
>
>
> From winForm it dose like this:
>
>
>
>             HTMLDocument myDoc = new HTMLDocumentClass();
>
>             myDoc = (HTMLDocument) axWebBrowser1.Document;
>
>
>
>             HTMLInputElement otxtSearchBox = (HTMLInputElement)
> myDoc.all.item("q", 0);
>
>             otxtSearchBox.value = "intel corp";
>
>
>
>             HTMLInputElement btnSearch = (HTMLInputElement)
> myDoc.all.item("btnI", 0);
>
>             btnSearch.click();
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lior.
>
>
>
>
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