Register a Client-Side Provider Assembly
This topic shows how to register a DLL that contains client-side UI Automation providers.
Example
The following example shows how to register an assembly that contains a provider for a console window.
using System;
using System.Windows.Automation;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices; // for DllImport
using System.IO;
namespace CSClient
{
class CSClientProgram
{
[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
static extern IntPtr GetConsoleWindow();
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// TODO Change the path to the appropriate one for your CSProviderDLL.
string fileloc = @"C:\SampleDependencies\CSProviderDLL.dll";
Assembly a = null;
try
{
a = Assembly.LoadFile(fileloc);
}
catch (FileNotFoundException e1)
{
Console.WriteLine(e1.Message);
}
if (a != null)
{
try
{
ClientSettings.RegisterClientSideProviderAssembly(a.GetName());
}
catch (ProxyAssemblyNotLoadedException e)
{
Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
}
IntPtr hwnd = GetConsoleWindow();
// Get an AutomationElement that represents the window.
AutomationElement elementWindow = AutomationElement.FromHandle(hwnd);
Console.WriteLine("Found UI Automation client-side provider for:");
// The name property is furnished by the client-side provider.
Console.WriteLine(elementWindow.Current.Name);
Console.WriteLine();
}
Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit.");
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}