refresh Edge via c#

Question

Hi,

we are migrating from IE to edge and one of our software was refreshing IE pages.
It was perfectly running for IE but of course not for Edge
could you provide me equivalent for edge of code here under?

thanks a lot

foreach (SHDocVw.InternetExplorer ieInst in new SHDocVw.ShellWindowsClass())
{
if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(ieInst.LocationURL) == true) continue;
foreach (string S in res)
{
if (ieInst.LocationURL.ToUpper().Contains(S)) //check if url contain a specific text
{
Library.Log(ieInst.LocationURL);
ieInst.Refresh();
break;
}
}
}

NB : this code was executed by a windows services

Answer 1

Hi anonymous useraa-2217

If you want to refresh pages in Edge, you can get Edge process first. After that, you can get all the tabs in Edge and set focus to tabs and refresh them by simulating pressing F5 using the System.Windows.Forms.SendKeys.SendWait method.

The sample code is like below:

using System;  
using System.Diagnostics;  
using System.Windows.Forms;  
using System.Windows.Automation;  
  
namespace refreshEdge  
{  
    class Program  
    {  
        static void Main(string[] args)  
        {  
            Process[] procsEdge = Process.GetProcessesByName("msedge");  
            foreach (Process Edge in procsEdge)  
            {  
                if (Edge.MainWindowHandle != IntPtr.Zero)  
                {  
                    AutomationElement root = AutomationElement.FromHandle(Edge.MainWindowHandle);  
                    var tabs = root.FindAll(TreeScope.Descendants, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.TabItem));  
                    var elmUrl = root.FindFirst(TreeScope.Descendants, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.NameProperty, "Address and search bar"));                   
                    foreach (AutomationElement tabitem in tabs)  
                    {  
                        if (elmUrl != null)  
                        {  
                            AutomationPattern[] patterns = elmUrl.GetSupportedPatterns();  
                            if (patterns.Length > 0)  
                            {  
                                ValuePattern val = (ValuePattern)elmUrl.GetCurrentPattern(patterns[0]);  
                                string url = val.Current.Value;  
                                Console.WriteLine(url.Contains("bing.com"));                                   
                            }  
                        }  
                        tabitem.SetFocus();  
                        SendKeys.SendWait("{F5}");                     
                    }  
                }  
            }  
        }  
    }  
}  

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Answer 2

Ok, thanks, I found it

Now tab is well focusing (all tabs are well displayed one by one ) but the command SendKeys.SendWait("{F5}"); doesn't work, any idea?

Extra question, how to check if url of active tab contain a specific text ( eg : msdn.com )

Thanks

Answer 3

Thanks YuZouh, it work !