Direct IE COM Automation for Lightweight Web UI Testing

Popular frameworks such as Selenimu, WatiN, and Coded UI all rely on the same underlying mechanism: invoking Internet Explorer’s COM interfaces and manipulating the HTML DOM. Instead of installing a third-party library, you can achieve the same result in a few lines of C# by referencing Microsoft’s own shdocvw.dll and mshtml.dll. Why drive IE d ...

Posted on Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:25:06 +0000 by cougarreddy