Comments on: WatiN and INamingContainer adventures http://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2008/01/23/watin-and-inamingcontainer-adventures/ Strong opinions, weakly held Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: ftorres http://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2008/01/23/watin-and-inamingcontainer-adventures/#comment-144 ftorres Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:50:07 +0000 /blogs/jimmy_bogard/archive/2008/01/23/watin-and-inamingcontainer-adventures.aspx#comment-144 Interresting problem to solve, The next version of InCisif.net (2.1) will support this problem during recording and run time and produce clear code like this one: Page.Control(AspNetId("butCreateAccount")).Click(); // ASP.NET ID:ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$butCreateAccount Page.WaitForPage(@"/frmCreateAccount.aspx"); Page.Control(AspNetId("FirstName")).Text = "Joe"; // ASP.NET ID:ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$FirstName Page.Control(AspNetId("LastName")).Text = "Doe"; // ASP.NET ID:ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$LastName Page.Control(AspNetId("butOK")).Click(); // ASP.NET ID:ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$butOK Page.WaitForPage(@"/MainMenu.aspx"); The function AspNetId can be override and the default implementation look like this: public virtual string AspNetId(string id){ string t = string.Format(@"re:(.*\${0}$)|(.*_{0}$)", id); if(Page.Control(t)!=null)return t; return id; } Frederic Torres <a href="http://www.InCisif.net">www.InCisif.net</a> Web Testing with C# or VB.NET Interresting problem to solve, The next version of InCisif.net (2.1) will support this problem during recording and run time and produce clear code like this one:

Page.Control(AspNetId(“butCreateAccount”)).Click(); // ASP.NET ID:ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$butCreateAccount
Page.WaitForPage(@”/frmCreateAccount.aspx”);

Page.Control(AspNetId(“FirstName”)).Text = “Joe”; // ASP.NET ID:ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$FirstName
Page.Control(AspNetId(“LastName”)).Text = “Doe”; // ASP.NET ID:ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$LastName

Page.Control(AspNetId(“butOK”)).Click(); // ASP.NET ID:ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$butOK
Page.WaitForPage(@”/MainMenu.aspx”);

The function AspNetId can be override and the default implementation look like this:

public virtual string AspNetId(string id){

string t = string.Format(@”re:(.*\${0}$)|(.*_{0}$)”, id);
if(Page.Control(t)!=null)return t;

return id;
}

Frederic Torres
http://www.InCisif.net
Web Testing with C# or VB.NET

]]> By: Darrell Mozingo http://lostechies.com/jimmybogard/2008/01/23/watin-and-inamingcontainer-adventures/#comment-143 Darrell Mozingo Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:51:04 +0000 /blogs/jimmy_bogard/archive/2008/01/23/watin-and-inamingcontainer-adventures.aspx#comment-143 You can use the LayoutTemplate section of the Login control to specify your own HTML, and therefore control IDs. See: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.login.layouttemplate(VS.80).aspx http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178339(VS.80).aspx You can use the LayoutTemplate section of the Login control to specify your own HTML, and therefore control IDs. See:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.login.layouttemplate(VS.80).aspx

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178339(VS.80).aspx

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