How do I establish an open connection to an open web browser in C#? In a Microsoft C# program using a Visual Studio Code I am using the following namespaces: > using OpenQA.Selenium; > using OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome; > using OpenQA.Selenium.Support.UI; After I get a string variable, "url", assigned with a URL of a website page, I use the following commands which successfully opens a browser window and loads the web site: > IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(); > driver.Navigate().GoToUrl(url); But this opens a chrome browser which is denoted somewhere as being a "test" session. It somehow knows it was launched from a program. And, since I am using this program to automate some interactions with linkedin, this information is passed along to linkedin which prompts me that it requires I login. This creates a cascading seriies of events that are difficult to automate including using my cell as a means of verification. Here, let me show you what I am up against. This screen shot: https://www.likablelogic.org/images/Direct/01.png shows that the web browser that my code launches through selenium commands has a label on it, "Chrome is bring controlled by automated test software". Yes, and I wrote this automated test software. What is most annoying is the fact that there is no log in to the session which is done automatically when I normally launch a browser. Here see this screen shot https://www.likablelogic.org/images/Direct/02.png where you can see that the user icon is this nondescript non-person. I made a video to demonstrate how pointless and frusturating this is: Youtube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mgq7UHORmU So, instead of taking this route, how do I establish an open connection to an open web browser in C#? I figure, if I instead connect to a web browser that is already open and already has its veriication steps done with linkedin, then I won't be prompted to log in and do any user verification. On a personal note, if this is intentional security measures to prevent people from abusing a system, then this is a sad thing. On a broader view, will all this mean I will have to make a web browser from scratch? I do not think so. Here is the bottom line. I am using selenium commands. Selenium is used for software testing. So there must be some way to attack a C# program to an actively open chrome web browser and interact with it. How do I do that? Is it better to use a different browser other than Chrome? How would I do that in C# code?
