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Selecting the value of an HTML combobox programmatically using a WebBrowser Control

Posted on: October 30, 2011.  No Comments »

Recently I’ve been playing around with a webbrowser control to automate my interaction with a website for testing purposes. I am using C# and DOT NET.

I found it a bit difficult to change the value of an HTML combobox (i.e. dropdown), but as it turns out it’s rather easy.I used the following code to change the value of a combobox named: “test” to the value 12.

foreach (HtmlElement el in webBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("select"))
{
if (el.Name == "test")
{
foreach (HtmlElement comboItem in el.Children)
{
Console.WriteLine(comboItem.InnerText + " " + comboItem.GetAttribute("Selected"));

if (comboItem.InnerText == "12")
{
comboItem.SetAttribute("Selected", "True");
}
}
}

}

This code was used for the following HTML:
<select name=”test”><option value=”10″ SELECTED>10</option><option value=”11″>11</option><option value=”12″>12</option><option value=”13″>13</option><option value=”14″>14</option></select>

foreach (HtmlElement el in webBrowser1.Document.GetElementsByTagName("input"))
{
if (el.Name.ToLower() == "submit")
{
el.InvokeMember("click");
}
}

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Getting the CPU Usage in C#

Posted on: October 7, 2010.  No Comments »

I recently wanted to get the usage of my CPU in C#. After searching the internet I found a way of doing it using the PerfomanceCounter class. I made a couple of changes and I created the following class, which seems to work.


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Diagnostics;

{
public class SystemUtils
{
public static long getCpuUsage()
{
PerformanceCounter cpuCounter;
cpuCounter = new PerformanceCounter();

cpuCounter.CategoryName = “Processor”;
cpuCounter.CounterName = “% Processor Time”;
cpuCounter.InstanceName = “_Total”;

cpuCounter.NextValue();
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);
return (int) cpuCounter.NextValue();
}
}
}

Using the statement: SystemUtils.getCpuUsage() you should be able to get an integer number showing the CPU usage.

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