Question

For Windows Store applications, a developer licence is required to run the unit tests, which is fine for the individual developer on his personal machine.

But for a continuous integration process on a build server, we really need the ability to acquire the licence automatically.

Microsoft provides a command line tool, but it still creates a interactive window, which breaks the process.

TailoredDeploy.exe AcquireDeveloperLicense

So does anyone know of any other way to automatically acquire a developer licence? Spawning new build nodes is going to be hell if it needs manual setup via. VPN for each of them.

Answer 1

I was suggested to use UI Automation, and here’s what I’ve conjured up so far:

using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;
using System.Windows.Automation;

class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo(@"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\TailoredDeploy.exe", "AcquireDeveloperLicense");

        var process = Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        process.WaitForInputIdle();

        Thread.Sleep(1000);

        var agreementWindow = AutomationElement.RootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children,
            new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ProcessIdProperty, process.Id));

        var iAgreeButton = agreementWindow.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition)[0]
                                          .FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition)[2];

        var buttonPattern = iAgreeButton.GetCurrentPattern(AutomationPattern.LookupById(InvokePattern.Pattern.Id)) as InvokePattern;
        buttonPattern.Invoke();

        Thread.Sleep(10000);

        var processes = Process.GetProcessesByName("dllhost");

        var credentialsWindows = AutomationElement.RootElement.FindAll(TreeScope.Children,
            new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ProcessIdProperty, processes[0].Id));

        if (credentialsWindows[0].Current.Name == "Developer License")
        {
            var credentialsPane = credentialsWindows[0].FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition)[0]
                                                       .FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition)[0]
                                                       .FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition)[0]
                                                       .FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition)[0]
                                                       .FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition);

            var usernameTextBox = credentialsPane[3].GetCurrentPattern(AutomationPattern.LookupById(ValuePattern.Pattern.Id)) as ValuePattern;
            usernameTextBox.SetValue("[e-mail]");

            var passwordTextBox = credentialsPane[5].GetCurrentPattern(AutomationPattern.LookupById(ValuePattern.Pattern.Id)) as ValuePattern;
            passwordTextBox.SetValue("password");

            var loginButton = credentialsPane[8].GetCurrentPattern(AutomationPattern.LookupById(InvokePattern.Pattern.Id)) as InvokePattern;
            loginButton.Invoke();

            Thread.Sleep(10000);

            var finishUpProcesses = Process.GetProcessesByName("TailoredDeploy");

            var finishWindow = AutomationElement.RootElement.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children,
                new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ProcessIdProperty, finishUpProcesses[0].Id));

            var lastItems = finishWindow.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition)[0]
                                        .FindAll(TreeScope.Children, Condition.TrueCondition);

            var closeButton = lastItems[3].GetCurrentPattern(AutomationPattern.LookupById(InvokePattern.Pattern.Id)) as InvokePattern;
            closeButton.Invoke();
        }
    }
}

To use this, a app.manifest is required to run in elevated mode:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<asmv1:assembly manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv2="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" name="MyApplication.app"/>
  <trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
    <security>
      <requestedPrivileges xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
        <requestedExecutionLevel  level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
      </requestedPrivileges>
    </security>
  </trustInfo>
  <compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1">
    <application>
    </application>
  </compatibility>
</asmv1:assembly>