Installation guide for C# WinAppDriver

Modified on Tue, 10 Sep at 10:30 AM

TABLE OF CONTENTS

2.2 Required Components Installation Links

This framework supports Desktop Automation, with required components including installation of Visual Studio, algoAF and algoScraper.

1. Overview

This article provides you the installation steps for C# WinApp Driver.

2. Download Options

There are two ways to install WinAppDriver on a Windows 10 machine:

You can refer to the WinAppDriver Github project document here: Installing and Running Windows Application Driver for the installation.
To download WinAppDriver, click here. The Windows Application Driver Setup window opens. Follow the instructions to install the Windows Application Driver. After downloading, ensure that you save the extracted files to the C:\ folder.

2.1. Steps to Install Visual Studio

C#-WinAppDriver.exe, the latest version, is compatible with Visual Studio versions 2017 and above. These tools work together to support the automation of Windows desktop applications using C# and Visual Studio as the development environment.

To install Visual Studio, perform the following:

To download Visual Studio community version, click here.
Run the setup file, it will take some time to download required files before the installation.

Make sure to select the following workloads before proceeding to installation.

Windows

NET desktop development
Universal Windows Platform development

Web & Cloud

ASP .NET and web development
Data storage and processing
Office/SharePoint development

Other ToolSets

Visual Studio extension development
.NET Core cross-platform development

2.2 Required Components Installation Links

To install algoScraper, refer to the article Installation Steps for algoScraper.
To set up algoAF, refer to the article Set Up algoAF.
To install algoAF, refer to the article Installation Steps for algoAF.
To install Access Database Engine, refer to the article Installation Steps for Access Database Engine.