IE Automation Book or Resource?? using MSHTML/ShDocVw VB.Net [closed] - vb.net

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Can anyone recommend a book or a website that explains Internet Explorer Automation using VB.NET? I understand that mshtml and ShDocVw.dll can do this, but I need a resource that will explain it to me. I want to read/write values as well as click buttons.
The only book I have come across so far is .Net Test Automation Recipes. Is this the one for me?
Thanks!

You can take a look at WatiN if you want some source code that goes in depth in terms of automating IE. In fact it may do exactly what you are trying to do.

The only book I am aware of dedicated to this subject at the IE COM level is
the digital Wrox publication Introduction to programming Internet Explorer in C# by Nikit Zykov. Although the examples are in C# the content is just as useful for VB.NET programmers. But as already mentioned you would probably be better off using one of the simpler IE COM wrapper APIs such as WatiN.

Check this article :
Internet Explorer Late Binding Automation
Internet Explorer automation sample code using late binding, without Microsoft.mshtml and shdocvw dependency.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/IELateBindingAutowod.aspx

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is there any "no licence - free" dynamic toolkit controls for visual Studio? [closed]

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I want to learn, is there any toolkit that I use in visual studio web project(MVC). I know some toolkit; such as Telerik, Kendo, Trirand. But all of them need licence. I make web project and need to use dynamic grid etc.
I think a simple googling would answer your question, try searching by grid js or toolkit js or javascript toolkit
also you find in this wikipedia article some comparison between diffrent JavaScript frameworks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_frameworks
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Codemaid-Like Tool for VB.NET [closed]

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I used to do a lot of work in C# but recently I got into a new role as a VB.NET developer. When I was doing C# I got to really like CodeMaid as an auto-formatting tool. Is there a tool like it for VB.NET (since CodeMaid doesn't support VB.NET)? I haven't been able to find anything in my searches (that was free anyways...).
I heard your plea.. how about we add support for VB to CodeMaid? :)
VB support is now available in beta testing here: https://bitbucket.org/s_cadwallader/codemaid/downloads/CodeMaid_v0.5.7.4_BETA.vsix
Give it a spin and if you see issues or have suggestions shoot a message to codemaid on gmail.
I'd suggest trying ReSharper. It supports almost any language you can use in visual studio. It may not be free, but you should give the trial a shot.
For quick 'auto-formatting' of text you can select all text in your file and use this shortcut:
Ctrl + K, Ctrl + F
to auto-format based on your Visual Studio formatting guidelines.
VB.NET forces most of the formatting you would have to do in C#, i.e. the code gets formatted automatically. For everything else there is little development effort. You do not need any tools for that.
Source: professional VB.NET developer for 4+ years.

Load testing for authenticated users [closed]

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I am looking for a couple of options to load test some asp.net applications with authenticated users. Does anyone have any suggestions? I prefer open source or not very expensive tools. Thanks.
Open source tools will have some limitations. A good value tool like StressTester would be my recommendation as you'll get more reliable results (based on personal experience). Depends how important the applications you're testing are as to what you go for.
Apache JMEter
Grinder
Fore more, Google for "open source load testing libraries"
Alos look at this post How good is JMeter for testing ASP .NET webpages?
AppLoader works well with authenticated users. Though not free, you can get a free trial.

Visual Basic (for Applications) Learning Resources [closed]

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As resident techie I have been charged with teaching some colleagues VB specifically for use with Excel.
My main duties involve MySQL and Objective-C and haven't touched VB since University. While I'm not worried about the prospect of learning VB (how hard can it be, right?). I have no clue on where to point my "students" to start.
Any good books? Online tutorials? I will of-course be sending them to SO.
I like VBA Developer's Handbook by Getz and Gilbert for a book. On the internets, I always wind up at ozgrid.com and cpearson.com.
About.com often has good stuff.
After that maybe some Free VBA Tutorials
Google search came up with - http://www.vbtutor.net/VBA/vba_tutorial.html this one is very basic and probably you will just have to breeze thru it and then probably move on to my personal favorite www.ozgrid.com

Lua COM Programming [closed]

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Anyone know of any examples that shows COM programming via Lua? Could require a library.
I need to write some external scripts for Photoshop, so wondering if it's possible with Lua.
Have a look at Lua for Windows. It contains LuaCOM. I haven't tried it myself, though.
As gimpf said, take a look at LuaCOM. You can either get it from its official site, which is the latest version (1.4). Unzip it somewhere and take a look at the folder "Demo", which includes examples for:
ADO
Powerpoint
SAPI (Speech API)
WMI
They are more like test cases than examples but you can get the idea.
You can roll your own system using CInvoke and some custom C/C++ code combined with Lua meta-tables.
http://www.nongnu.org/cinvoke/
From experience though I can't recommend this, it is pretty complicated and requires a lot of effort to get it right and make it bulletproof.