WinAppDriver | Windows Application Driver

This might be a larger refactoring job, but it will be worth the effort.

First, you'll need to create interfaces for each page model. I recommend keeping the interfaces as simple as possible in order to provide a complete and flexible abstraction. Instead of three separate methods (EnterUsername, EnterPassword and ClickSignIn) which must be called in a specific order, consider a single method called SignIn which accepts a username and password as arguments. The method will internally handle entering the username, password and clicking the appropriate button.

Really, if you go this route, think hard about the interfaces. Try to avoid any situation where the order methods are called matters. Try to focus on the use case, and not the steps required to satisfy that use case.

dotnet build carries out an implicit restore as part of the command.

This uses dotnet restore which does not support project references in packages.config & is exactly what this project is using.

dotnet restore only supports .csproj package references.

That's why, this project builds perfectly fine in Visual Studio but dotnet build throws errors.

You can migrate packages.config to package references by right-clicking on the file within Visual Stduio and clicking migrate, however that still won't fix your problem as dotnet cli works properly with .NET Framework only if the project was created using the dotnet new command.

I assume this project was created in Visual Studio since it has a Visual Studio solution file - .sln - and so commonly have a differently structured .csproj format.

This then usually breaks some CLI commands, even if you migrate the references in this case.

You have 2 workarounds.

1. Use nuget restore

The easiest option is to download the NuGet CLI executable from here, taken from the downloads page.

If you are not on Windows, use this guide by Microsoft.

Add it to your PATH or place it in the root folder of the project.

Run nuget restore, which is compatible with packages.config (run .\nuget restore if you're inside PowerShell to trust the command as PowerShell does not does not load commands from the current location by default for security).

Your should get output similar to this:

Well the solution to this it's kinda of tricky, first of all we will use the JNA library. If you're using maven you could use this dependency

This issue is raised and still open (4 years!) on the WinAppDriver repo.

Here's the workaround that a user suggested there.

The second modal window (Preferences Modal window ) is actually treated as a new window(whose window handle is managed by winappdriver). After switching the session to that window, and using relative xpath, I solved the problem.

You my add this after running ngbv to update you BuildNumber

Per default AppiumLibrary will run Capture Page Screenshot on failure.
AppiumLibrary Documentation

Most likely sequence is as follow.

1. Test case try open notepad but fail.
   Open Application http://localhost:4723/wd/hub app=C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe

2. On this failure AppiumLibrary try Capture Page Screenshot but fails due to there is no open application since step 1 failed.

I believe you need to focus on troubleshooting why the app do not open properly.

If you like to suppress this failure you can you can set AppiumLibrary to not capture screen on failure in the import with run_on_failure=No Operation, see the linked documentation above.

Library AppiumLibrary run_on_failure=No Operation

I searched for "Yellow" in the repository.

Maybe the result in "Tools/UIRecorder/UIXPathLib/UiTreeWalk.cpp" is what you are looking for?

When you disconnect the RDP session windows knows it doesn't have the render the gui, so it doesn't.

The trick is to disconnect a different way. Terminate your connection from the remote sever with this:

%windir%\System32\tscon.exe RDP-Tcp#NNN /dest:console

where RDP-Tcp#NNN is the ID of your current Remote Desktop session, for example, RDP-Tcp#5. You can see it in the Windows Task Manager on the Users tab, in the Session column.

If you need more info have a look at this site https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/running/via-rdp/keeping-computer-unlocked.html

The link is for test complete not selenium but the steps are sound.