19 August 2011

How to programmatically click a button - WPF

Back in WinForms it was really easy to simulate a user clicking a Button, you just call a Button’s PerformClick method. In WPF it's not quite as intuitive as the old Windows Forms way, but it is more powerful since you can raise most events now.


System.Windows.Controls.Button btnLaunch = new Button();

btnLaunch.RaiseEvent(new RoutedEventArgs(Button.ClickEvent, btnLaunch));


Since I love the new 3.5 Extensions, I've made an extension method that mimics the old Windows Forms method.


/// <summary>


/// Manally performs a <seealso cref="System.Windows.Controls.Button.Click"/> event for a supplied


/// <seealso cref="System.Windows.Controls.Button"/>.


/// </summary>


/// <param name="btnObject">The <seealso cref="System.Windows.Controls.Button"/> object to


/// be clicked.</param>


public static void PerformClick(this System.Windows.Controls.Button btnObject)


{


btnObject.RaiseEvent(


new System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs(


System.Windows.Controls.Button.ClickEvent,


btnObject));


}

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