Can Anyone Tell Me how to Read Alertbox Content in .Net

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Is Anyone tell me how to read Messagebox or AlertBox content in .net
I don't want HeaderText. I need Content of AlertBox or MessageBox.

Thank you in Advance

Posted 24-May-13 0:32am

Arun Vasu

Updated 28-May-13 1:31am

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Prasad Khandekar 24-May-13 6:45am

Hello Arun,

You can use Windows API for this purpose. Please see this MSDN documentation (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms632627(VS.85).aspx). Also look at the ManageSpy code sample (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163617.aspx) or have a look at this link (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc301438.aspx).

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Arun Vasu 24-May-13 7:11am

i refer all site which you gave me.. but sorry.. i not find any exact solution

Prasad Khandekar 24-May-13 7:32am

What you are really trying to do is called screen scraping. The sites I referred contains information on how to do this. Basically AlerBox or a MessageBox are windows and you need to retrieve the text present in one of the labels of that window. The typical steps to do this are
1. Find the matching window (by say title)
2. Get a list of child controls
3. Go through each and get the text content if supported.

This is one more link (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5978879/how-do-i-read-messagebox-text-using-winapi)

ZurdoDev 28-May-13 9:01am

Can you explain why so that we can understand how to help properly?

Arun Vasu 31-May-13 1:23am

My need is:
I have one web application. After One process a page shows one message box, it may successfully inserted, or updated or its return guid() value or if any exception in process it will show in that application. My requirement is i want to read that message box content using that i need to take some action. for this i need the solutions.

ZurdoDev 31-May-13 7:33am

Are you sure it is an alert() from javascript? If so, you'll have to do what Prasad suggested, use the Windows API to get a handle on that window. I doubt that will be easy. Or, could it be a div that is displayed? Either way, it sounds like a hack to get this to work. Is there no other way to do it? You can't have the person who created the website create a webservice for you?

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