UI Automation Article Published on Level Extreme

On this month's edition of the Level Extreme .Net Magazine, my article about Building an UI Automation Client Application was published. The article walks through building a client application for automating a win 32 target application (the Windows Address Book). The idea is to show through simple code snippets how to use the UI Automation API for manipulating a target application programmatically through its UI. It shows how to find the UI elements, and how to work with the UI Automation patterns and handle events. The sample client application code contains further examples and can be downloaded from the article's page. Hope you read it!

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WPF Accessibility

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides a very interesting API for Accessibility called Microsoft UI Automation. It allows programmatic access to most user interface elements on the desktop, addressing the needs of assistive technology products and also for User Interface (UI) tests automation.

The framework provides solutions for both accessibility providers and clients, and it is conformed of four main components (see UI Automation Overview):

1. The Provider API (UIAutomationProvider.dll and UIAutomationTypes.dll) defines a ...

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