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UI Automation is designed for experienced C/C++ developers. In general, developers need a moderate level of understanding about Component Object Model (COM) objects and interfaces, Unicode, and Windows API programming.

The UI Automation element objects are provided to clients in a hierarchical tree structure called the UI Automation tree.

• uiautomationclient.h
  • GetCurrentPropertyValue

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/uiauto-clientsoverview

• To gain access to the core UI Automation service,
• a client must create an instance of the CUIAutomation object and
• retrieve an IUIAutomation interface pointer on the object
• https://www.codemag.com/article/0810122/Creating-UI-Automation-Client-Applications
• https://github.com/hnakamur/w32uiautomation ***

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Required DLL

• UIAutomationClient.dll

• UiAutomationCore.dll

• Client API (UIAutomationClient.dll and UIAutomationTypes.dll)

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/uiauto-clientsoverview

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/uiauto-creatingcuiautomation

#include <uiautomation.h>

Resources

• https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winauto/entry-uiautocore-overview
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/ui-automation/ui-automation-overview
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.automation.automationelement.automationelementinformation.name?view=netcore-3.1
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/_controls/
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/_automat/