c# - Open webbrowser, auto complete form components and submit

Question

We are currently investigating a method of creating a WPF/winforms application that we can set up internally to :-

1. automatically open a new instance of a web browser to a predefined URL
2. automatically complete required fields with predefined data
3. automatically submit form and wait for the next page to load
4. automatically complete required fields with predefined data (page 2)
5. automatically submit form and wait for the next page to load (etc)

after much investigation, the only thing we have managed to find is the opening up of a web browser via :-

object o = null;

SHDocVw.InternetExplorer ie = new SHDocVw.InternetExplorer();
IWebBrowserApp wb = (IWebBrowserApp)ie;
wb.Visible = true;
wb.Navigate(url, ref o, ref o, ref o, ref o);

Any advice / reading recommendations would be appreciated on how to complete the process.

Answer 1

I wrote an example for filling in an element in a html page. You must do something like this:

Winform

public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            //navigate to you destination 
            webBrowser1.Navigate("https://www.certiport.com/portal/SSL/Login.aspx");
        }
        bool is_sec_page = false;
        private void webBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (!is_sec_page)
            {
                //get page element with id
                webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("c_Username").InnerText = "username";
                webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("c_Password").InnerText = "pass";
                //login in to account(fire a login button promagatelly)
                webBrowser1.Document.GetElementById("c_LoginBtn_c_CommandBtn").InvokeMember("click");
                is_sec_page = true;
            }
            //secound page(if correctly aotanticate
            else
            {
                //intract with sec page elements with theire ids and so on
            }

        }

Wpf

public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
     webBrowser1.Navigate(new Uri("https://www.certiport.com/portal/SSL/Login.aspx"));
            }
            bool is_sec_page = false;
            mshtml.HTMLDocument htmldoc;
            private void webBrowser1_LoadCompleted(object sender, NavigationEventArgs e)
            {
                htmldoc = webBrowser1.Document as mshtml.HTMLDocument;
                if (!is_sec_page)
                {
                    //get page element with id
                    htmldoc.getElementById("c_Username").innerText = "username";
                    //or
                    //htmldoc.getElementById("c_Username")..SetAttribute("value", "username");
                    htmldoc.getElementById("c_Password").innerText = "pass";
                    //login in to account(fire a login button promagatelly)
                    htmldoc.getElementById("c_LoginBtn_c_CommandBtn").InvokeMember("click");
                    is_sec_page = true;
                }
                //secound page(if correctly aotanticate
                else
                {
                    //intract with sec page elements with theire ids and so on
                }
            }

Just navigate to specific URL and fill page element.