OpenQA.Selenium.DriverServiceNotFoundException: The chromedriver.exe file does not exist in the current directory

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Problem I’m trying to use Selenium with the ChromeDriver and I’m running into the following exception: Unhandled Exception: OpenQA.Selenium.DriverServiceNotFoundException: The chromedriver.exe file does not exist in the current directory or in a directory on the PATH environment variable. The driver can be downloaded at http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html Solution The simplest solution is to install the Selenium.Chrome.WebDriver nuget … Read more OpenQA.Selenium.DriverServiceNotFoundException: The chromedriver.exe file does not exist in the current directory

OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable. Other element would receive click.

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Problem I am using Selenium to automate navigating a website. I’m trying to click a button: When I try to click the button it’s throwing the following exception: OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable. Other element would receive click. The reason this is happening is because Selenium is trying to click the button by its coordinates, … Read more OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: Element is not clickable. Other element would receive click.

Visually diff two branches using WinMerge

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Sometimes you need to diff two branches, and your source control system isn’t the right tool for the job. I’ve ran into this problem in practice in a few different cases: Merging from one source control system to a different one GitHub sometimes fails at this task Whatever the reason for needing to do this, … Read more Visually diff two branches using WinMerge

Event-driven .NET: How to use query notifications in SQL Server to monitor database changes

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How do you check for new records in a database and react to the new data? You really only have two options: Poll for changes every X seconds Use query notifications to be notified when new data is inserted In this article I’ll show you how to configure query notifications so that your application receives … Read more Event-driven .NET: How to use query notifications in SQL Server to monitor database changes

Event-driven .NET: How to add an event to a class

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In the previous article we saw how events work. In this article I’ll show how to add an event to a class. In order to illustrate this I’ve created a simple chat app that uses an in-memory message queue. Each chat window is subscribed to the message queue’s OnMessageReceived event, and updates their UI upon … Read more Event-driven .NET: How to add an event to a class

Event-driven .NET: how events work

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The very basis of event-driven programming is the concept of events. Events are an implementation of the Observer Pattern. With the Observer Pattern you have an observable entity and entities that want to observe that entity. Objects with events are observable, and other objects subscribe to those events and are notified when the events happen. … Read more Event-driven .NET: how events work

The bottom-up principles of unit testing, refactoring, and pragmatism

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After years of coding and reading dev books I’ve distilled my coding principles down into these three simple principles: unit testing refactoring pragmatism I write these down in my notebook and repeat them to myself on a daily basis. These are my coding principles. It’s important to know your principles. Your principles act as a … Read more The bottom-up principles of unit testing, refactoring, and pragmatism

Find the distance between two coordinates using SQL and C#

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Imagine you’re in the middle of Millennium Park in Chicago. You want some coffee, but want a good deal on it. You open an app and see the nearest coffee shops offering deals to anyone with this app. How did this app know the distance from you to the coffee shops? This article will show … Read more Find the distance between two coordinates using SQL and C#

Multithreaded quicksort in C#

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One day I decided to challenge myself by trying to implement multithreaded quicksort. I wanted to see how it would compare to the built-in sort function – Array.Sort(). I came up with two algorithms that were 2-4x faster than Array.Sort(): Top-down: divide-fork-sort-merge Bottom-up: quicksort with fork-on-recursion After continuing to tinker, in attempts to further optimize, … Read more Multithreaded quicksort in C#