I have IIS-Hosted WCF application and services. I want to automate the process to deploy this application into test/Acceptance test/production environments What is the best way to automate the process and make it very easy to the system administrators? assuming that the web site / (or virtual directory) is already there and I don't have ...
I am using a simple yet effective anti-spam system at a comments module which seems to be working flawlessly for more than a year now. Since it is capable of recognizing automated comment spam attempts, I am thinking of extending this security module with an ability of adding the offender IPs to a blacklist automatically. Do you think ...
I have an MDI application for which I do not have source for. I believe it is an MFC application. I need to automate some of it's functionality. It has a form with a listview type control on it. I would like to be able to read that list from my new C# application to know what the items are so I can select the correct one. I have tried ...
I am new in MSHTML autopmation and wish to automate a page which has table in it. The requirement is to check the check box available in the first column of the table. The problem is; in runtime I need to send the row Number whose check box needs to be selected. In short, through my function I would be passing parameter as 10 i.e. 10th ...
I have an MFC MDI Application and I am trying to implement Automation with it. I am trying to create a RemoveDocument. How is that done? OnCloseDocument is causing problems. Is there a "standard" for doing that? ...
hi folks, i´m programming a vsto add-in combined with an automation add-in in VB.NET using MS Visual Studio 2008. The automation add-in is activated in excel and registered at the system. basically the automation add-in running very well, when you call the function with "=<function-name>(<argument1>;<argument2>;...;<argument-n>)" by w...
If I need to automate a series a task on an excel sheet like remove all rows where column 3 contains value "asdf" remove column 7 and column 9 sort according to column 4 etc. What is the easiest way of automating such tasks in excel? I think it would recording a macro but sometimes macro have to be edited a lot to actually make th...
I'm trying to write some web-based automation. The sites I'm hitting aren't on the same domain as my automation, so cross-site scripting issues make it impossible to access the DOM on the target website. I don't want to use a proxy or deal with proxifying the target websites (like Selenium does, for example). Cross-platform is a nice ...
I'd like to create a PowerPoint (not Javascript/HTML/PDF/Keynote/.mov) using code (any language, C preferred) for free. (I've seen this SO question which references how to create them in C#) Is this even possible? How can I write the raw bits that make up a PowerPoint file? Any good libraries for doing this? UPDATE The Microsoft Refer...
I don't know what the objects name is because I don't have the source code for it but I want to code something in Python to have it login to an application for me. Basically I want it to start the program which is this import subprocess subprocess.call(['C:\Program Files\PATH\program.exe']) But than I want it to click on the login b...
Hello could someone please help me with the following: I want to center the text in a scalc open office spreadsheet cell via Delphi and the OOoTools toolkit. The following code does not work: sRange := '$A$3:$A$3'; ooParams := CreateUnoStruct('com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue', 1); ooParams[0].Name := 'ToPoint'; ooParams[0].Value := s...
Hello and thanks for taking the time to read my question! I am currently trying to automate some basic functionality in internet explorer for a few cases where the currently employed method does not work. To do this i am (due to the knowledge of the people i work with) creating some VBScript that uses the IE automation object. I set o...
Hi All, I'm investigating Boo and thought it would be a useful exercise to try converting a couple of venerable VB Scripts that automate Excel (2007, in this instance). A lot of things seem to translate very easily, however I'm having a huge amount of trouble selecting ranges - whenever I try to get or set them I get a TargetInvocationE...
I want to position an image on the page the user is looking at, however I cannot find how to get the currently visible page/scroll in pixels. Anybody know which object and property could give me that? ...
Does anyone know of a good replacement to Watij which will allow automated tests to be written in Java? It looks like the Watij library isn't being developed anymore. ...
I am trying to setup a system for automating certain tasks in my home. I am thinking of a solution wherein a server side application would be able to send/receive commands/data to Arduino (attached with Arduino Ethernet Shield) via the web. Here the Arduino may both act as a sensor interface to the server application or command execut...
I work on a project consisting of a server and a client application deployed via ClickOnce. The client is installed the first time an user clicks a http://...file.application link, and the interaction with the user during installation are minimal (just the standard ClickOnce install/don't install dialog box). One of our client wants to...
I am looking for a tool to integrate many different types of automation and test frameworks in order to automate fully end-to-end scenarios for testing. For example, a typical workflow might be: Install an Operating System (Ghost, etc..) Configure the operating system (open firewall exceptions, setup users, etc..) Install Software (Vis...
We have some legacy software which depends on sending keystrokes to a DOS window and then scraping the screen. I am trying to re-create the software by redirecting the input and output streams of the process directly to my application. This part I have managed fine using: _Process = new Process(); { _Process.StartInfo.FileName = APP...
I have godaddy asp.net hosting. Every time I upload the build, it’s a manual laborious task of setting write permissions(to folders) through the web interface. Is this something I can automate? Are there any nant /script tasks with which can do this? ...