Screen scraping from an application

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VB

Hello all,

I have a vb.net application that I need to scrape data from.
The source code is not available to me (contractor not available to us - the application was developed several years ago)

I am writing a C# application to scrape from a particular toolStripLabel on a toolStrip (of that VB Application).

When I use Spy++ I can see the information for the ToolStrip (Handle, Caption ,Class , Style etc) - but it does not see the toolStripLabel that contains the data I need.


I am testing my concept with a console application that will parse the data (to a text file) out of a very quick VB Form that I created
(which includes a toolstrip and a toolStripLabel) - the output does not include the toolStripLabel on the toolstrip.


I am very new to using 'hWnd' and delegate to the "user32.dll" functions and most of what I have done is based on what I have seen in forums and some MSDN articles.


Is there anyway that I can dip further into the ToolStrip to get the label data
- or can anyone suggest a delegate function that I should be using?

I have included my output - as you can see the command buttons and TooStrip text are found - but not the toolStripLabel text.

Thanks for any suggestions or pointers!


My code is as follows:

foreach (Process procesInfo in Process.GetProcesses())
{   
           
  if (procesInfo.ProcessName.ToString().Contains("testToolStrip"))
            {

                Console.WriteLine(procesInfo.ProcessName.ToString());
                Console.WriteLine("Target process found" + " " + procesInfo.ProcessName.ToString()   );

                foreach (ProcessThread threadInfo in procesInfo.Threads)
                {

                    IntPtr[] windows = GetWindowHandlesForThread(threadInfo.Id);
                    if (windows != null && windows.Length > 0)
                        foreach (IntPtr hWnd in windows)
                        {

                            System.IO.StreamWriter file = new System.IO.StreamWriter(@"c:\scrapeTest.txt", true);
                            file.WriteLine("\twindow {0:x} text:{1} caption:{2} xx:{3}", hWnd.ToInt32(), GetText(hWnd), GetEditText(hWnd), GetEditText(hWnd));
                            file.Close();

                }

               }

            }

}

It produces a textfile with the contents:

window 4f142c text:Form1 caption: xx:
window 6414e4 text:Button2 caption:Button2 xx:Button2
window 74154e text:Button1 caption:Button1 xx:Button1
window 1d1458 text:I am the toolStrip text caption:I am the toolStrip text xx:I am the toolStrip text
window 4d14a0 text:.NET-BroadcastEventWindow.4.0.0.0.2bf8098.0 caption: xx:
window 4a14ea text:M caption: xx:
window 33153c text:Default IME caption: xx:
window 27147c text:GDI+ Window caption: xx:
window 531430 text:Default IME caption: xx: