I have been trying a lot of different solutions with wait
and async
. Nothing seems to work. I was not able to find solution that actually fully waits until page has been fully loaded. All codes are waiting some time but not until page has been loaded and I am getting an error on next process.
How I can set for example code into wait mode until Document.GetElementById("quickFind_text_0")
element has been found on page?
Here is my code:
private void button7_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
webBrowser1.Navigate("https://company.crm4.dynamics.com/main.aspx?app=d365default&pagetype=entitylist&etn=opportunity");
webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("shell-container").Document.GetElementById("quickFind_text_0").SetAttribute("value", "Airbus");
webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("shell-container").Document.GetElementById("quickFind_text_0").InnerText = "Airbus";
//Thread.Sleep(2000);
HtmlElement fbLink = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("shell-container").Document.GetElementById("mainContent").Document.GetElementById("quickFind_button_0"); ;
fbLink.InvokeMember("click");
}
P.S. I have to do this "twice" otherwise it is not working:
webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("shell-container").Document.GetElementById("quickFind_text_0").SetAttribute("value", "Airbus");
webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("shell-container").Document.GetElementById("quickFind_text_0").InnerText = "Airbus";
In VBA this works:
While .Busy
DoEvents
Wend
While .ReadyState <> 4
DoEvents
Wend
Is it possible to do the same in C#?
EDIT:
My full code below. For some reason async/await does not work.
System.NullReferenceException HResult=0x80004003 Message=Object reference not set to an instance of an object. Source=v.0.0.01
StackTrace: at v._0._0._01.Browser.d__7.MoveNext() in C:\Users\PC\source\repos\v.0.0.01\v.0.0.01\Browser.cs:line 69
Here is my code:
using System;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace v.0._0._01
{
public static class WebBrowserExtensions
{
public static Task<Uri> DocumentCompletedAsync(this WebBrowser wb)
{
var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<Uri>();
WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventHandler handler = null;
handler = (_, e) =>
{
wb.DocumentCompleted -= handler;
tcs.TrySetResult(e.Url);
};
wb.DocumentCompleted += handler;
return tcs.Task;
}
}
public partial class Browser : Form
{
public Browser()
{
InitializeComponent();
}
private async void button7_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
webBrowser1.Navigate("https://company.crm4.dynamics.com/main.aspx?app=d365default&pagetype=entitylist&etn=opportunity");
await webBrowser1.DocumentCompletedAsync(); // async magic
HtmlElement fbLink = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("shell-container").Document.GetElementById("mainContent").Document.GetElementById("quickFind_button_0"); ;
fbLink.InvokeMember("click");
}
}
}
Here is the source code:
Also now I have noticed that quickFind_text_0
and quickFind_button_0
always starts with same words but numbers are changing like quickFind_text_1
and quickFind_button_1
or quickFind_text_2
and quickFind_button_2
. However by manual clicking everything works with quickFind_text_0
and quickFind_button_0
.
Here is an extension method for easy awaiting of the DocumentCompleted
event:
public static class WebBrowserExtensions
{
public static Task<Uri> DocumentCompletedAsync(this WebBrowser wb)
{
var tcs = new TaskCompletionSource<Uri>();
WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventHandler handler = null;
handler = (_, e) =>
{
wb.DocumentCompleted -= handler;
tcs.TrySetResult(e.Url);
};
wb.DocumentCompleted += handler;
return tcs.Task;
}
}
It can be used like this:
private async void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
webBrowser1.Navigate("https://company.crm4.dynamics.com/main.aspx");
await webBrowser1.DocumentCompletedAsync(); // async magic
HtmlElement fbLink = webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("quickFind_button_0");
fbLink.InvokeMember("click");
}
The lines after the await
will run after the page has completed loading.
Update: Here is another extension method for awaiting a specific element to appear in the page:
public static async Task<HtmlElement> WaitForElementAsync(this WebBrowser wb,
string elementId, int timeout = 30000, int interval = 500)
{
var stopwatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
while (true)
{
try
{
var element = wb.Document.GetElementById(elementId);
if (element != null) return element;
}
catch { }
if (stopwatch.ElapsedMilliseconds > timeout) throw new TimeoutException();
await Task.Delay(interval);
}
}
It can be used for example after invoking a click event that modifies the page using XMLHttpRequest:
someButton.InvokeMember("click");
var mainContentElement = await webBrowser1.WaitForElementAsync("mainContent", 5000);
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