Well, I am going to put this all on CodePlex tomorrow, but I promised a few people that I’d throw it up here for them yesterday, so I figured it’s past time to post it … without further ado. The Window Automation Snapin and it’s source should be downloaded from the CodePlex project where updates can be tracked.

This is basically an upgrade to the Win32.Windows snapin I released a while back, the one thing that’s missing in this release that was possible in that one is using frame-set definitions to position windows. That will make it back in eventually, but in the meantime, I present some major new additions which add up to the ability to do 90% of what you’d want to do in testing or automating your winforms app’s UI.

• Select-Window – pick windows by process name or window caption (with wildcard support)
• Select-Control – pick controls by class and/or name and/or index (with wildcard support)
• Send-Click – send mouse clicks (any button, with any modifier keys)
• Send-Keys – Windows.Forms.SendKeys lets you send keys … try this: Select-Window notepad | Send-Keys "%(ea)Testing{Enter}{F5}" (and for extra fun, try it with multiple notepad windows open).
• Set-WindowActive – yeah, just activates the window
• Set-WindowPosition – set any one of (or all of) top, left, width, height on a window … or maximize/minimize/restore
• Get-WindowPosition – get the position (kind-of redundant, actually, since the Window object has it’s position as a property)
• Remove-Window – closes the specified window

There’s no help right now, so get used to using Get-Command -PSSnapin WindowAutomation and checking out the ParameterSets … hopefully you can figure it out from that for now. Oh, one other thing, there might be a few extras hiding in these:

• [Huddled.Win32.WindowExtenders] | Get-Member -static
• [Huddled.Win32.WindowFinder] | Get-Member -static

For now, that will have to do, it’s past time for bed. You might want to play with this and the out-voice script I posted on CodePlex awhile back, it makes things extra fun.