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Asked: 2026-06-12T19:05:03+00:00

I am interested in speeding up my development/testing workflow on a program that I

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I am interested in speeding up my development/testing workflow on a program that I am debugging. I am developing in VB6, and have written a PS1 script to move my DLLs accordingly, but I want to go a step further.

My testing workflow involves opening the program, which has a login screen, launched by ThirdPartyLoginScreen.exe. Is there any way to programmatically pass login information to this EXE using PowerShell, or am I confined to writing it in VB6?

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  1. Editorial Team

    If your script starts the program ThirdPartyLoginScreen.exe, and that program comes to the foreground, then a lightweight way to do this is to use SendKeys.

    Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms

# start the program
ThirdParytLoginScreen.exe

# send keystrokes to the foreground window
[Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait('domain\username')
[Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait('{TAB}')
[Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait('p@ssw0rd1')
[Windows.Forms.SendKeys]::SendWait('{ENTER}')

    This is the simplest way to do basic UI automation through powershell. It has numerous drawbacks and limitations, but it might help get you unblocked for simple scenarios.

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