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I have an Internet Explorer window open. The title of this window will always be “test123”
how do I save the source of the contents of the window as an HTML file?
Please note that the process should not be to open a URL and read the HTML into a variable. I absolutely HAVE TO do it the way I described since I need to login to a site to be able to view the HTML that I want to save.
**if it makes it easier to do this through my winform and putting a webbrowser control on it, that is fine as well.
You can attach to virtually any Windows app, using managed code and the UI Automation classes. Not a lot of people know about this stuff.
Microsoft shipped a class library and runtime that allows applications to automate other Windows on the system. You can do things like click buttons, read textboxes, activate menus, and so on. Here’s a quick intro.
It should be relatively simple to attach to an IE Window, and then programmatically tickle the File…Save As… menu option.
I did this the other day for a Paint.NET app. It took much less time that I thought it would.
But I agree it’s probably easier to use a WebBrowser control in a regular app, to programmatically retrieve content. You could also use the System.Net.WebClient class to do it, if you don’t need to show the HTML content.