Using Windows Hooks To Automate Filling In Webbrowser Control Authentication Dialogues?
Jul 9, 2009
I'm developing an VB.NET application which utilizes a webbrowser control. The browser control needs to navigate to a simple page which prompts the user for their user name and password. However, this prompt is not simply a web form, but it is a completely new dialog window. I need a way to automate filling in the username and password in this dialog by using locally stored credentials, so that there is no interruption in the webbrowser control's navigation. The only information that I have been able find so far that might be useful in solving this problem, involves using windows hooks in the user32.dll to intercept and negotiate with these windows at a low level.
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Jan 4, 2010
I have been attempting to automate a process in a webbrowser control. When I attempt to fill out the form and submit, I get a false negative response (meaning all the data in the fields are correct but I am getting an incorrect response back from what I should be getting). I have determined that this problem is due to the fact that when I manually type out the data in the input fields a javascript is being fired. I know that you are able to invoke the javascript, but as I have no real knowledge about javascript and the script is rather complex I am stuck.
A temporary solution for me has been to use SendKeys, but this is no real solution at all. If the window loses focus, the entire process goes out the window. I cannot just use the .SetAttribute or .InnerText methods for the elements in the window.
I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with WatiN but I have used it recently while looking for other means to do what I need to do here. Watin works, but instead of allowing me to use an embedded browser object it shells new browser windows. Anyhow, with WatiN I am able to minimize or hide the browser window and the code will still execute. This leads me to believe that there is a way to simulate keypress events in a browser window while making sure that the specific element is the active element.
I have searched all over the internet for this (but am sure I overlooked a few things in frustration) and have yet to find a solution that works for me.
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Mar 9, 2010
I looked all over the forum posts here and didn't see the answer to a question concerning iframes within the webbrowser control (there were similar issues however). The forum has a classifieds section that allows members to post threads daily. I have a message that I like to send once every day to a forum and decided that it would be best to achieve this programmatically. However, I noticed in the visual basic 2008 webbrowser control, that it doesn't seem to automate the iFrames within the browser using the htmlelementcollection codes.
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Sep 4, 2009
I am trying to automate login and navigation to a website using the WebBrowser control. I can successfully logon to the site using the wb control but after that I can't seem to get access to the newly loaded document's elements within the same routine. I check for ReadyState Complete and IsBusy but they don't seem to be working. There don't appear to be any frames being used at all so I can't figure out why this won't work. I know that the wb control is successfully logging in because I can see the page load in the wb control. However, after the page loads I try to access the HTMLDocument for the new page (after logging in) and it is either set to Nothing or it's the previous page's HTML. I've tried putting in a Sleep to wait for the page to finish before trying to access the HTMLDocument on the new page but it still doesn't work. If I create a button on my form that accesses the HTMLDocument and click it it works fine. I can't figure out how to ensure that the entire page has finished loading within my routine. I tried putting a switch into the DocumentCompleted event but that doesn't work either.
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Jan 2, 2012
I am try to Develop a application that can control a PC using SMS with internet. also i turn on the PC power with a cell phone. but After i turn on the PC it will ask for username & password! I store this information on a local database (Eg:MS ACCESS). how can i get that username & password then log in to PC using a VB.NET Program?
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Feb 9, 2010
I have been working on this one for a couple of days now. The company I work for wants me to automate a login (coupled with a phone dialer) to a national Satellite retailer. When the call center individual gets a call the ACD system forwards them to a URL and is supposed to log them in. Unfortunately one of the sites heavily uses frames and I cannot programmatically autofill the userid and password and programmatically press the "OK" button on thee website. The website is: [URL]. I have been able to drill down and fill in the userid and password fields, but this has stopped working but I have never been able to Invoke the OK button event.
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Feb 9, 2009
I have never written a hook before. Can anyone point me in the right direction of good tutorials to get starrted on hooks. I'm looking to write something so when a user right clicks on a file, they have an option to copy the path and filename of that file to the clipboard.
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Mar 26, 2012
I'm writing a small business app in VB10 and I need to automate some things with the whole system.There's a website with an opendialog box (choose file) and I need my app (webbrowser) to click it and automatically choose 1 file to load.
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Jun 3, 2012
Using Webbrowser, I've managed to automate PDF downloads for several of the websites used by our company. I'm still a beginner at this process.Many of our PDF downloads, however, are from a Wells Fargo service called Wholesale Lockbox Image. The problem is that this Wells Fargo site expects the user to select items from a treeview as part of his query criteria. I don't know how to make Webbrowser select these treeview nodes programmatically.
Although I don't know anything about Java, the treeview is definitely a Java control. I know this for several reasons.(1) The instructions on the website specifically state that the the treeview won't draw until Java is installed.
(2) A standard Java splashcreen appears in the little treeview pane until the treeview actually begins to draw. The HTML code has an <OBJECT> tag which includes this attribute: ARCHIVE = "JWLTreeView2.jar"
Using Microsoft's mshtml library, I've tried looping through the elements on the page but can't find anything corresponding to the nodes in the treeview. I've also tried applying EnumChildWindows to the IE window, but here too I found nothing specific to the nodes. When I hover Spy++ over the treeview pane, it only identifies the pane as a whole, not the individual nodes.Furthermore, even when I select the nodes using my mouse, I don't seem to detect any corresponding alteration of the Webbrowser's HTML document (unless I overlooked it somehow).Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make Webbrowser select the treeview nodes programmatically?Oddly, I noticed that if the user saves the webbpage to his harddrive and then loads it into his browser from there, he can still see the treeview and select items (even without logging in to Wells Fargo), although if I bring the page home, the treeview is gone. I guess this means that IE is storing/caching the java file somewhere on the company machine, although I don't know if this fact would help solve my problem...
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Aug 15, 2009
I have seen several threads about automating several aspects of html elements (buttons, textboxes, checkboxes, radio buttons etc...) but I didn't see any specific codes to auto-click "Hyperlinks". How would I invoke a click on any hyperlink located on any given webpage if I needed to?
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Dec 9, 2009
I have a vb windows application with 2 forms, where form2 is called from form1 using form2.showdialog()
I added a web browser control to form2, and I'm getting the following error at the point where form2 is called:
Current thread must be set to single thread apartment (STA) mode before OLE calls can be made. Ensure that your Main function has STAThreadAttribute marked on it.
I tried:
1) adding STAThread() to the form_load()
2) I added a module to my application, and created a sub main(), with the STAThread attribute applied to it
3) I marked the sub startup() with STAThread()
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Jul 11, 2011
I am trying to write a program that will tell my grandmother whether the internet is live or not. I know, I know, She just doesn't get it. So I want to create a program to load google.com or something and all I want the program to do is tell her whether the site was found or not. Is there a way to do this with the WebBrowser control?
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Apr 6, 2010
I have a WebBrowser control in my VB.NET application that loads a PHP page inside it. On the PHP page I have a 'Log Out' hyperlink. What I'm trying to do is close the VB.NET form when that hyperlink is clicked.
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Apr 14, 2012
I can't seem to find a way to use the IE9 rendering engine in the WebBrowser control, instead of the IE7 rendering engine, using Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Forms.
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Apr 11, 2009
How do I automate a web page (e.g. retrieve page text, login website, search, click button or hyperlink) via WebBrowser?
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Nov 26, 2009
XP WEBBROWSER-CONTROL: brings up PDF embedded in webbrowser control, as desired.XP IE7: Behaves the same if you manually navigate to URL, as desired.VISTA WEBBROWSER-CONTROL: brings up PDF by separately launching Acrobat, won't embed in webbrowser control. Not desired.Vista IE7: embeds PDF properly if you navigate to same URL, as desired.I am using Acrobat 9, where there is a preference setting under Internet to bring up PDF embedded in browser -- works fine directly in IE7, but not in webbrowser control.
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Sep 9, 2005
disabling the context menu for webbrowser control in Windows forms using c#.
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Jan 11, 2010
I am writing a windows form application, where I want to have a WebBrowser control, and in that control, I want to show a Google map programmatically generated (I mean, not just specify a URL to the browser).
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May 9, 2012
If you are interested, I am doing this because I do not like having to drag and drop my browser etc. I just right click the URL in Chrome and select (Play on My TV) a customized dropdown item, at which point my Player finds the TV, opens the URL, maximizes itself and plays the content
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Apr 1, 2012
I found a script online to copy some files whilst also displaying a progress bar to the user. I wondered if it was possible to automate this process so the file copy initiates as soon as the program launches and then closes once completed. VB is not my strong point as I usually code in c sharp.
Imports System.Collections.Generic
Imports System.ComponentModel
Imports System.IO
Public Class Form1
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Apr 30, 2010
I have a VB.Net project that I am running from a local server and I need to use the credentials the user is currently logged in with to upload a file to a folder I create on a SharePoint site on the same domain. I can get it to upload if I specify the credentials but it will not work with system.net.credentialcache.defaultcredentials. It just gives me 3 empty strings and I get a 401 unauthorized error. I have seen a few threads that say you cannot use it with Windows Forms Applications. Is this true? Here is my code:
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Jul 18, 2010
Was updating a project and all of a sudden the auto-filling of a WebBrowserControl's Dropdownbox stopped working. Here is the HTML of the Input box:
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I think it is the "onkeyup" thing that isn't getting fired properly so the dropdown list isn't updating itself... it was working fine before, and now, with no changes, it just stopped working. can someone take a look at my code and see if they spot anything? EDIT: attached an image of the dropdown box in question. as I type, it does the lookup. (using the onkeyup event). I am setting the value of the dropdown to the five digit code at run-time, trying to trigger the onkeyup event to get it to get the full line, but it won't work.
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May 9, 2009
I am trying to fill form located here [URL] using web browser control in MS Visual Basic 2008.
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Jun 12, 2011
I need to fill some field on webpage in my webbrowser . This field has not got ID and I can not use
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Mar 11, 2010
I'm new to this forum and was wondering if somebody could help me out on the visual basic 2008 webbrowser filling iFrames.Here is an example iFrame below
<TD class=controlbar><TEXTAREA style="WIDTH: 500px; DISPLAY: none; HEIGHT: 350px" dir=ltr id=vB_Editor_001_textarea tabIndex=1 rows=10 cols=60 name=message>
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Apr 16, 2012
I it's my first post on this forum. I need help with filling textbox in WebBrowser.
I wanted to fill textbox in webbrowser. I used for one teztbox and it worked.
WebBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("message").SetAttribute("value", TextBox1.Text)
WEB SOURCE: <input type="text" value="" size="50" tabindex="2" name="subject">In the case above everything was good but how to put the text from textbox3 between '>' and '<'?
<textarea id="message" rows="16" cols="70" tabindex="3" name="text">TEXT HERE
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Mar 25, 2009
I have implemented webbrowser control in my windows application. I have some functions inthe class file. i want to use those functions from the webpage which is displayed in my windows app through webbrowser control..For example say... I have an standalone windows software. Which has a webbrowser control in the some form. Now i would like to create a webpage that can be displayed in the webbrowser control in win app which has some buttons and textboxes. When i click on button in the webpage it should get the version number of that software. I have some other functions that are in the class file aswell.. but dont no how to call those functions from that webpage when a button is clicked or something like that.
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Jul 16, 2009
I have an import program which I run manually everyday. I want to automate it but i'm not sure whether to make it a windows service or add it as a scheduled task. It needs to run at 11:00 and again at 16:00. Please advise
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Apr 30, 2012
I am trying to submit a feed back form, but I am struggling to actually fill it!!!
Here's the
<form target="ajaxframe" method="post" action="misc_js.php">
<div class="class_postfeedback">
<textarea id="feedback_body" class="feedback_area" cols="25" name="feedback_body" style="overflow: hidden; height: 70px; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Write Something...
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Jun 15, 2011
I want to use automated testing using autoit for my existing windows form based application. Currently looking at the autoit documentation I couldnt figure out how to start a existing windows application in vb.net and then use it for further automation.
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