Coded UI compiled DLLs in Selenium? - selenium-webdriver

Question

I am trying to use Coded UI compiled Dlls in Selenium project.
I Created on Class Library Project in Visual Studio where I created on class in this i write one simple method to draw highlight the "Save as window" like:
namespace CreadeDll
{
public class Class1
{
public void ValidateSaveasWidnow()
{
WinWindow window = new WinWindow();
window.SearchProperties.Add(WinWindow.PropertyNames.ControlType, "Window");
window.SearchProperties.Add(WinWindow.PropertyNames.Name, "Save Print Output As");
window.DrawHighlight();
}
}
}
After Build the application, i added this DLL in my selenium (C#, which is different project) project through reference.
namespace SeleniumProj
{
[TestFixture]
public class TestDll
{
[Test]
public void gets()
{
CreadeDll.Class1 c = new CreadeDll.Class1();
c.ValidateSaveasWidnow();
}
}
}
But the problem here is i am unable to Build. When i try to run it is giving message like "There were build errors"

Answer 1

Coded UI is available only in enterprise license of Visual Studio. Also VS 2019 will be the last version of Visual Studio that contains the Coded UI test functionality as Microsoft is deprecating the coded UI from later version onward. For more detail on this please follow this link .
I would suggest to go for appium Winappdriver to solve your windows UI control problem.
You can get appium winappdiver from this link : https://github.com/Microsoft/WinAppDriver
To learn more about WInappdriver you can refer the below links:
Winappdriver 8 minutes overview with demos
C# demo with calculator sample walkthrough