unity06 Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 Hello guys, I am relatively new still to the programming scene. I am intending to learn a lot in the coming times as I have really taken an interest in this direction. I wish to create a few automation programs to be used for IE, but I do not want to automate the mouse clicks and coordinates. I want to create scripts that can control IE through the "COM" (I think it is called) So they can run in the background and do the following: Navigate around various pages Post text to various pages Download images and upload images I spoke to a few people and some say to use AutoIT, others say to use VB Net Which is more powerful or more suitable for the task? So in which direction should I put my learning to be more effective? AutoIT or VB Net? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 AutoIt offers a UDF (User Defined Functions Library) to automate IE. Does VB Net offer a Library? My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unity06 Posted November 20, 2013 Author Share Posted November 20, 2013 AutoIt offers a UDF (User Defined Functions Library) to automate IE. Does VB Net offer a Library? I dont know, but hoping someone can tell me, how where to best spend my time learning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unity06 Posted November 20, 2013 Author Share Posted November 20, 2013 Also can Autoit run/automate IE in the background with the user not seeing anything? (only the desired outputs)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted November 20, 2013 Share Posted November 20, 2013 With the IE UDF you can create an invisible IE object, do what you want to do and then set visibility to True. My UDFs and Tutorials: Spoiler UDFs:Active Directory (NEW 2022-02-19 - Version 1.6.1.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiExcelChart (2017-07-21 - Version 0.4.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Example ScriptsOutlookEX (2021-11-16 - Version 1.7.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiOutlookEX_GUI (2021-04-13 - Version 1.4.0.0) - DownloadOutlook Tools (2019-07-22 - Version 0.6.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - WikiPowerPoint (2021-08-31 - Version 1.5.0.0) - Download - General Help & Support - Example Scripts - WikiTask Scheduler (NEW 2022-07-28 - Version 1.6.0.1) - Download - General Help & Support - Wiki Standard UDFs:Excel - Example Scripts - WikiWord - Wiki Tutorials:ADO - WikiWebDriver - Wiki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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