How to automate a google drive desktop login using C#

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I have an application that is used for logging the employees to the vmware desktop. Our company uses Google mail for email with our company domain name. Now , what I want to do is grab the username and password from that application (which was written in C#) and use it to login to google drive without interfering the user experience. So far, I tried using Process() class to open google drive and SendKeys() method to fill the email and password form for them. However, I have not been able to do this whole process in a background. Is there any way to open google drive and run it in background and fill the form? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Posted 6-Aug-13 5:27am

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joshrduncan2012 6-Aug-13 14:56pm

Have you checked for a google api on their website?

Ashley_H 8-Aug-13 2:36am

As far as I know Google removed the ability to pragmatically log into their web services using a username and password in a previous version of the API (I may be wrong however). You now have to use .NET OAuth2 access tokens in conjunction with the GoogleDrive API to access to a users account.

https://developers.google.com/drive/examples/dotnet

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