Question

I’m trying to automate a password entry but the website in question does not allow you to type your password with the caps lock key on. WatiN appears to use the caps lock key in order to type capital letters thus not allow this to work.

Does anyone know a workaround or a way to force WatiN to use the shift key?

Answer 1

You could write your own extension to the TextField class like this…

public static class WatinHelper
{
    public static void TypeTextFast(this TextField textField, string text)
    {
        textField.SetAttributeValue("value", text);
    }
}

and then use TypeTextFast instead of TypeText. This would furthermore improve typing speed considerably (particularly in IE) when running the WatiN test. See this for further details.