Recently I was trying to automate one step of my internet explorer actually my automation step was very simple I just needed to navigate an URL, read DOM of the URL, get text boxes and enter data in it. After entering data in text boxes I was suppose to click on login button.
Actually one of my 3rd party tool is depending on the login and was trying to automate the login and run the 3rd party tool so I need not to go to server everyday and do that.
It is easy to automate Internet Explorer by using a COM control named Microsoft Internet Controls (SHDocVw). To browse the DOM Microsoft.mshtml is used. I found a very helpful article with code in codeproject.com. here is the article : Automating Internet Explorer
By the way, I was facing problem to insert data in the text box and click button. It worked fine in my local computer where VS is installed but for the computers where VS is not installed it shown exception to convert _Comobject to mshtml.HTMLInputElementClass . Download modified file.
