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I would like to know how I can prevent Internet Explorer from firing up every time I run my console application which uses WatiN for testing live sites. When I run my console application it fires up internet explore and runs through all the tests that I have created using WatiN. What I want is for my console application to run through these tests using WatiN, but without displaying Internet Explorer starting up and appearing on the screen. I basically want the tests to run without seeing Internet Explorer. The IE class by deafult uses some built in settings for a few features. One of which is

Is there any way which would allow me to use watin's functionalities from my web browser control? simply i want to use watin with my web browser control i don't want my application to open a new window ,i need it in my web browser control. If you are using .Net WebBrowser Control you can create WatiN's IE object by using following code: var ie = new IE(webBrowser.ActiveXInstance); But if you do that inside your Form_Load ActiveXInstance will be null. And if you do that for example inside some kind of button_Click the application will hang after you use eg. ie.GoTo . You need to start new

I am getting the following WatiN error: Unhandled Exception: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembl y 'Interop.SHDocVw, Version=1.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=db7cfd3acb5 ad44e' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition do es not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) File name: 'Interop.SHDocVw, Version=1.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=db I copied the shDocvw.dll from System32 to the bin directory but still it is giving me the same problems. MoMo UPDATE: This answer was written before Nuget was

I'm running Watin tests with xUnit on CC.Net under Windows Server 2003. I have lots of tests that all run fine on development boxes with TestDriven.Net and on the server with the xUnit gui app. However, when CC.Net runs the tests (as part of an MSBuild task) the function ie.ContainsText("some text to find"); never returns the expected value. Other functions and properties on the IE object appear to work fine: Button(...).Click(), TextBox(...).Value, etc. I am aware that the service account needs "Allow service to interact with the desktop". I have tried this running CC service under Local

How can i Assert that the CSS for a page has successfully loaded and applied its styles in Watin 2.1? ShadowScripter After doing some research and writing up my answer, I stumbled upon this link that explains everything you need to know about CSS, when it is loaded and how you can check for it. The link provided explains it so well, in fact, that I'm adding some quotes from it for future reference. If you're curious, my answer was going to be #2 and a variation of #4. When is a stylesheet really loaded? ... With that out of the way, let's see what we have here. // my callback function // which