Setup Selenium 4 with C Sharp (C#) in Visual Studio

Setup Selenium 4 with C Sharp (C#) in Visual Studio

What you will learn:

  • Download & Install visual studio

  • Create visual studio project

  • Understanding project components

  • Adding Selenium Webdriver and Chrome browser dependencies

  • Create First C Sharp script using Selenium 4

Download & Install visual​​ studio

Download community edition​​ of Visual studio​​ (open source, free of cost)​​ from​​ https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

Expand Visual Studio 2022​​ and download community edition

Download the​​ exe​​ and install Visual studio.

During the installation you might see below window. Select ‘.NET desktop development’ and ‘Universal Windows Platform development’ packages

After installation

(Optional step)​​ After installation, you can sign in with your outlook account. If you do not have microsoft account, you can create it by going to the website​​ https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx

You can click ‘Not now, maybe later’

Select theme and click ‘Start Visual Studio’

Click ‘Create a new project’

Select ‘Console App’ and click Next.

To download older community versions of VS

Click ‘Older Downloads’

Expand 2019

Click Download

Signin with your outlook account​​ and download the community edition

For 2019 comminty edition, when you are creating a new project, select .NET 5.0 (Current)

Create visual studio project​​ (snapshots taken from visual studio 2017 version)

Launch​​ Visual studio and click File > New >Project

Select​​ ‘Visual C#’ on the left menu​​ and the type of project (application) as ‘Console App​​ (.NET Framework)

Browse​​ &​​ select the desired location where you would like to save your project.​​ 

Type​​ application​​ name​​ ‘SeleniumCSharpAppApplication’

Click OK.

The ‘Solution Explorer’ window​​ will come up giving​​ details of your project (View >Solution explorer).​​ The solution explorer shows the name of the project you have just created

Understanding project components

By default 2​​ folders (Properties, References), 1 config file​​ and 1​​ class​​ file gets created inside this project​​ (see above).

The dlls get added inside the References folder

Program.cs​​ is a​​ C sharp class file​​ having .cs extention

Adding Selenium Webdriver and Chrome browser dependencies

Right click Refrerences > Manage NuGet Packages…

Click ‘Browse’ tab and search for ‘selenium’. Notice below that we have Selenium version 4.1 available

Install Selenium.WebDriver

Install Selenium.Support

Install Selenium.WebDriver.Chrome

These will than appear under ‘Installed’ section

You should see these references under ‘References’

Create First C Sharp script using Selenium 4

Let us create an instance of chrome driver

Save and click ‘Start’. Notice below that a blank chrome browser has been launched

Let us navigate to a site

Notice below that the site is launched

Code Snippet

using​​ OpenQA.Selenium;

using​​ OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome;

using​​ System;

using​​ System.Collections.Generic;

using​​ System.Linq;

using​​ System.Text;

using​​ System.Threading.Tasks;

 

namespace​​ SeleniumCSharpAppApplication

{

 ​​ ​​ ​​​​ class​​ Program

 ​​ ​​ ​​​​ {

 ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​​​ static​​ void​​ Main(string[] args)

 ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​​​ {

 ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​​​ IWebDriver dr =​​ new​​ ChromeDriver();

 ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​​​ dr.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.way2automation.com/");

 ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​ ​​​​ }

 ​​ ​​ ​​​​ }

}

 

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