Automate VB Form Controls

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Hi,

Please let me know how can i automate VB Controls like Buttons , Grids , Tables in an external VB Application from my C# Application.

I dont want to use SendKeys for this.

Regards,
Nikesh

Posted 2-Aug-13 7:21am

Nikesh_k

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Maciej Los 2-Aug-13 13:30pm

Wow! Do you think we can read in your mind and we know what VB apllication do?

ridoy 2-Aug-13 14:11pm

rightly say,Maciej :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Aug-13 14:53pm

What do you mean by "VB" here, exactly? Isn't it "VB.NET".
—SA

Aydin Homay 2-Aug-13 23:39pm

Your question is not clear and we have not any magic for reading your mind ;)

Nikesh_k 6-Aug-13 6:36am

There is a Visual Basic Application which has textboxes , Grids ,tables and Buttons.
We want to automate actions(Get Data and Push Data) for these controls.
We dont want the SendKeys Option to automate.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-08-02T08:55:00

Solution 2

Of course, using SendKeys is a bad thing and is not recommended for UI development anyway.

Instead, you can learn about System.Windows.Forms automation. Please start with this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms996405.aspx[^].

Good luck,

—SA

Posted 2-Aug-13 8:55am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Maciej Los 2-Aug-13 15:11pm

+5!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Aug-13 15:25pm

Thank you, Maciej.
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ridoy 2-Aug-13 15:28pm

very good link,+5.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Aug-13 15:32pm

Thank you very much.
—SA

ZurdoDev · Answer 2 · 2013-08-02T08:09:00

Solution 1

If you don't want to use SendKeys then whatever app you are trying to control will have to have an SDK or API that you could use.

Posted 2-Aug-13 8:09am

ZurdoDev