Could not load file or assembly 'System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51'. The system cannot find the file specified.

[Vincent Jong]

I've just started looking into white to try and do some win32 automation on Windows 7. I'm just right now just doing a simple open calc.exe and I can't figure out what I need to do. I keep getting a System.IO.FileNotFoundException on launch. System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("CMD.exe", "/C " + ExeSourceFile); works fine. 

The code I'm using below seems to follow the newb howto's. What am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help and patience.

using System;

using TestStack.White;

using TestStack.White.Factory;

using TestStack.White.UIItems.Finders;

using TestStack.White.InputDevices;

namespace ConsoleApp1

{

    class Program

    {

        private const string ExeSourceFile = @"C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe";

        //Global Variable to for Application launch

        private static TestStack.White.Application _application;

        //Global variable to get the Main window of calculator from application.

        private static TestStack.White.UIItems.WindowItems.Window _mainWindow;

        static void Main(string[] args)

        {

            Console.WriteLine("Hello World!\n" + ExeSourceFile);

            var psi = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(ExeSourceFile);

            TestStack.White.Application _application = TestStack.White.Application.AttachOrLaunch(psi);

        }

    }

}

[Mike Hetzer]

I would recommend using a unit test project in order to trigger your code instead of a Console App.
With this, you are technically using the cmd prompt to try and launch a secondary app and then send commands to it which could get wonky.

Use something like MSTest or NUnit (recommended).

Other than that it seems like it's maybe missing a reference or dependency?

[Vincent Jong]

@Mike

Hi I tried NUnit and the result is the same. I'm not sure what the issue would be as this is just a simple open a calculator and these are the steps that all the tutorials use...

using NUnit.Framework;

using TestStack.White;

using TestStack.White.Factory;

using TestStack.White.UIItems.Finders;

using TestStack.White.InputDevices;

namespace NUnitTestProject1

{

    public class Tests

    {

        private const string ExeSourceFile = @"C:\Windows\System32\calc.exe";

        //Global Variable to for Application launch

        private static TestStack.White.Application _application;

        //Global variable to get the Main window of calculator from application.

        private static TestStack.White.UIItems.WindowItems.Window _mainWindow;

        

        [SetUp]

        public void Setup()

        {

            System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo psi = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(ExeSourceFile);

            _application = TestStack.White.Application.AttachOrLaunch(psi);

        }

        [Test]

        public void Test1()

        {

            Assert.Pass();

        }

    }

}

Test Name: Test1

Test FullName: NUnitTestProject1.NUnitTestProject1.Tests.Test1

Test Source: C:\Users\tester\Documents\amax\poc2\NUnitTestProject1\UnitTest1.cs : line 27

Test Outcome: Failed

Test Duration: 0:00:00

Test Name: Test1

Test Outcome: Failed

Result StackTrace:

at TestStack.White.Application.Launch(ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo)

   at TestStack.White.Application.AttachOrLaunch(ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo)

   at NUnitTestProject1.Tests.Setup() in C:\Users\tester\Documents\amax\poc2\NUnitTestProject1\UnitTest1.cs:line 23

Result Message: System.IO.FileNotFoundException : Could not load file or assembly 'System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51'. The system cannot find the file specified.