Push window to front with hidden powershell - javascript

I have a scheduled task that starts a hidden-window PowerShell script. The script does some stuff, starts an HTA and waits for the HTA to close:
Start-Process $HTApath -Wait
and then the PoSh script does some other stuff. Everything works great on many machines (Win7 & 10), but other (fairly stock) systems, the HTA often doesn't come to the front and is not seen for hours/days. That's a problem.
I have included javascript:
<script type="text/javascript">
[...]
window.focus();
AND vbscript:
<script language='vbscript'>
Sub window_toFront
Set Shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Shell.AppActivate("UAlbany Security Updates Policy Reboot Notice")
End Sub
window_toFront
in the HTA, and I've put in timed loops to repeat the attempts. On the machines where the window comes to the front initially, the loops do a very nice job forcing the window back to the front, but on the machines that ignore the directive, repeating the attempt does nothing. Those machines are running the other VBS/JS scripts in the HTA; It is ONLY the push-to-front commands that are not working.
I also tried this "evil" method. It also failed to work on some machines (and crashed a VM).
I've tried testing PoSh options that could be used externally to the HTA (i.e. replacing the Start-Process call in the scheduled script):
Add-Type #"
using System;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
public class Tricks {
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
public static extern bool SetForegroundWindow(IntPtr hWnd);
}
"#
$PID = [diagnostics.process]::start("HTApath").id
start-sleep -Seconds 1
$Handle = (Get-Process -Id $PID).MainWindowHandle
While ((Get-Process -Id $PID -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -ne $null) {
Start-Sleep -Seconds 1
[void] [Tricks]::SetForegroundWindow($Handle)
}
but it only seems to work if the PoSh window is made active (which won't happen for this process).
Does anyone have any suggestions for getting this to work? I'm particularly interested in understanding why the internal-HTA methods are so hit-or-miss; Is there a Windows/IE setting that could cause this?
Thanks!

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Delete USB history (regedit) with script

I have a javascript and Powershell script allowing to detect a usb plug, and which shows me a pop up. Indeed, my script only detects new usb keys that have not yet been plugged into the system. That's why I would like to delete the usb key history from my computer, like USB OBLIVION does, in order to have as a new connection to each usb plug.
I don't see what I need to add to my script... I have already tried deleting the content of:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBSTOR
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceClasses\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB
Thanks
You could try these, but don't forget to wipe the from them other 3 paths as well
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\SWD\WPDBUSENUM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Portable Devices\Devices\
You could also consider using WMI Event subscriptions, this works whatever the usb key is already known or not, but do not clear the registry :
to detect usb plug :
Register-CIMIndicationEvent –Query `
"Select * From __InstanceCreationEvent Within 1 Where TargetInstance IsA 'Win32_LogicalDisk'" `
–SourceIdentifier "WMIInsert" –Action { Write-Host `
"$($Event.SourceEventArgs.NewEvent.TargetInstance.Name) plugged!`n" }
to detect usb ejection :
Register-CIMIndicationEvent –Query `
"Select * From __InstanceDeletionEvent Within 1 Where TargetInstance IsA 'Win32_LogicalDisk'" `
–SourceIdentifier "WMIEject" –Action { Write-Host `
"$($Event.SourceEventArgs.NewEvent.TargetInstance.Name) ejected!`n" }
Within 1 means to detect every one second. Depending on your needs, you can configure Within 30 for example to look it for every 30 seconds (every plug or ejection in the meantime are captured as well).
the -Action parameter let you do whatever you want since this is a scriptblock (In the example I provided the event is only displayed to the console).
And do not forget that StackOverflow is not a free coding service, so next time, please share the piece of code where you have got a problem or a bug.

CefSharp offscreen with .net core 2.0 Runtime Error , System.IO.FileNotFoundException: 'Could not load file or assembly 'CefSharp.Core,

I am getting this error
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: 'Could not load file or assembly 'CefSharp.Core, Version=63.0.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=40c4b6fc221f4138'. The system cannot find the file specified.'
I am trying to run the cefsharp.minimalexample.offscreen program in .net core 2.0. in visual studio 2017
what I have done so far
1 . Created .net core console application
2 . Installed NuGet packages Cefsharp.Offscreen (which installs the dependencies cefsharp.common and redist)
3 . Installed Microsoft.windows.compatibility nuget package to get the system.drawing in .net core (It was not working with System.Drawing.Common as the Cefsharp ScreenshotAsync function using system.drawing)
These steps will clear all the errors and the project will build successfully.
I am getting the above mentioned error.
I have checked all the required files mentioned in the Cefsharp documentation in the current running folder (debug). All files are available ,Still error is not going away.
It works fine in old Dot net versions 4.6.
I could not find any helping documents for implementing cefsharp.offscreen with .net core any where.
This is the code from the example provided in the Cefsharp.offscreen.
Please let me know if you can shed some light on this issue. Thanks in advance.
public class Program
{
private static ChromiumWebBrowser browser;
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
const string testUrl = "https://www.google.com/";
Console.WriteLine("This example application will load {0}, take a screenshot, and save it to your desktop.", testUrl);
Console.WriteLine("You may see Chromium debugging output, please wait...");
Console.WriteLine();
var settings = new CefSettings()
{
//By default CefSharp will use an in-memory cache, you need to specify a Cache Folder to persist data
CachePath = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.LocalApplicationData), "CefSharp\\Cache")
};
//Perform dependency check to make sure all relevant resources are in our output directory.
Cef.Initialize(settings, performDependencyCheck: true, browserProcessHandler: null);
// Create the offscreen Chromium browser.
browser = new ChromiumWebBrowser(testUrl);
// An event that is fired when the first page is finished loading.
// This returns to us from another thread.
browser.LoadingStateChanged += BrowserLoadingStateChanged;
// We have to wait for something, otherwise the process will exit too soon.
Console.ReadKey();
// Clean up Chromium objects. You need to call this in your application otherwise
// you will get a crash when closing.
Cef.Shutdown();
}
private static void BrowserLoadingStateChanged(object sender, LoadingStateChangedEventArgs e)
{
// Check to see if loading is complete - this event is called twice, one when loading starts
// second time when it's finished
// (rather than an iframe within the main frame).
if (!e.IsLoading)
{
// Remove the load event handler, because we only want one snapshot of the initial page.
browser.LoadingStateChanged -= BrowserLoadingStateChanged;
var scriptTask = browser.EvaluateScriptAsync("document.getElementById('lst-ib').value = 'CefSharp Was Here!'");
scriptTask.ContinueWith(t =>
{
//Give the browser a little time to render
Thread.Sleep(500);
// Wait for the screenshot to be taken.
var task = browser.ScreenshotAsync();
task.ContinueWith(x =>
{
// Make a file to save it to (e.g. C:\Users\jan\Desktop\CefSharp screenshot.png)
var screenshotPath = Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Desktop), "CefSharp screenshot.png");
Console.WriteLine();
Console.WriteLine("Screenshot ready. Saving to {0}", screenshotPath);
// Save the Bitmap to the path.
// The image type is auto-detected via the ".png" extension.
task.Result.Save(screenshotPath);
// We no longer need the Bitmap.
// Dispose it to avoid keeping the memory alive. Especially important in 32-bit applications.
task.Result.Dispose();
Console.WriteLine("Screenshot saved. Launching your default image viewer...");
// Tell Windows to launch the saved image.
Process.Start(screenshotPath);
Console.WriteLine("Image viewer launched. Press any key to exit.");
}, TaskScheduler.Default);
});
}
}
}

Cucumber+Ruby+Capybara+Selenium: How to make the 'visit' method wait for dynamic content

Here is the issue that has been nagging for weeks and all solutions found online do not seem to work... ie. wait for ajax, etc...
here is versions of gems:
capybara (2.10.1, 2.7.1)
selenium-webdriver (3.0.1, 3.0.0)
rspec (3.5.0)
running ruby 2.2.5
ruby 2.2.5p319 (2016-04-26 revision 54774) [x64-mingw32]
in the env.rb
Capybara.register_driver :selenium do | app |
browser = (ENV['browser'] || 'firefox').to_sym
Capybara::Driver::Selenium.new(app, :browser => browser.to_sym, :resynchronize => true)
Capybara.default_max_wait_time = 5
end
Here is my dynamicpage.feature
Given I visit page X
Then placeholder text appears
And the placeholder text is replaced by the content provided by the json service
and the step.rb
When(/^I visit page X$/) do
visit('mysite.com/productx/')
end
When(/^placeholder text appears$/) do
expect(page).to have_css(".text-replacer-pending")
end
Then(/^the placeholder text is replaced by the content provided by the json service$/) do
expect(page).to have_css(".text-replacer-done")
end
the webpage in question, which I cannot add it here as it is not publicly accessible, contains the following on page load:
1- <span class="text-replacer-pending">Placeholder Text</span>
after a call to an external service (which provides the Json data), the same span class gets refreshed/updated to the following;
2- <span class="text-replacer-done">Correct Data</span>
The problem I have with the "visit" method in capybara + selenium is that as soon as it visits the page, it thinks everything loaded and freezes the browser, and it never lets the service be called to dynamically update the content.
I tried the following solutions but without success:
Capybara.default_max_wait_time = 5
Capybara::Driver::Selenium.new(app, :browser => browser.to_sym, :resynchronize => true)
add sleep 5 after the visit method
wait for ajax solution from several websites, etc...
adding after hooks
etc...
I am at a complete loss why "visit" can't wait or at least provide a simple solution to an issue i am sure is very common.
I am aware of the capybara methods that wait and those that don't wait such as 'visit' but the issue is;
there is no content that goes from hidden to displayed
there is there is no user interaction either, just the content is getting updated.
also unsure if this is a capybara issue or a selenium or both.
Anyhow have insight on any solutions? i am fairly new to ruby and cucumber so specifically what code goes in what file/folder would be much appreciated.
Mel
Restore wait_until method (add it to your spec_helpers.rb)
def wait_until(timeout = DEFAULT_WAIT_TIME)
Timeout.timeout(timeout) do
sleep(0.1) until value = yield
value
end
end
And then:
# time in seconds
wait_until(20) { has_no_css?('.text-replacer-pending') }
expect(page).to have_css(".text-replacer-done")
#maxple and #nattf0dd
Just to close the loop on our issue here...
After looking at this problem from a different angle,
we finally found out Cucumber/Capybara/ is not a problem at all :-)
The issue we are having lies with the browser Firefox driver (SSL related), since we have no issues when running the same test with the Chrome driver.
I do appreciate the replies and suggestions and will keep those in mind for future.
thanks again!

Simplest way to launch Firefox, drive 3rd party site using privileged nsI* APIs

What's the simplest way to launch Firefox, load a 3rd party website (which I'm authorised to "automate"), and run some "privileged" APIs against that site? (e.g: nsIProgressListener, nsIWindowMediator, etc).
I've tried a two approaches:
Create a tabbed browser using XULrunner, "plumbing" all the appropriate APIs required for the 3rd party site to open new windows, follow 302 redirects, etc. Doing it this way, it's an aweful lot of code, and requires (afaict) that the user installs the app, or runs Firefox with -app. It's also extremely fragile. :-/
Launch Firefox passing URL of the 3rd party site, with MozRepl already listening. Then shortly after startup, telnet from the "launch" script to MozRepl, use mozIJSSubScriptLoader::loadSubScript to load my code, then execute my code from MozRepl in the context of the 3rd party site -- this is the way I'm currently doing it.
With the first approach, I'm getting lots of security issues (obviously) to work around, and it seems like I'm writing 10x more browser "plumbing" code then automation code.
With the second approach, I'm seeing lots of "timing issues", i.e:
the 3rd party site is somehow prevented from loading by MozRepl (or the execution of the privileged code I supply)???, or
the 3rd party site loads, but code executed by MozRepl doesn't see it load, or
the 3rd party site loads, and MozRepl isn't ready to take requests (despite other JavaScript running in the page, and port 4242 being bound by the Firefox process),
etc.
I thought about maybe doing something like this:
Modify the MozRepl source in some way to load privileged JavaScript from a predictable place in the filesystem at start-up (or interact with Firefox command-line arguments) and execute it in the context of the 3rd party website.
... or even write another similar add-on which is more dedicated to the task.
Any simpler ideas?
Update:
After a lot of trial-and-error, answered my own question (below).
I found the easiest way was to write a purpose-built Firefox extension!
Step 1. I didn't want to do a bunch of unnecessary XUL/addon related stuff that wasn't necessary; A "Bootstrapped" (or re-startless) extension needs only an install.rdf file to identify the addon, and a bootstrap.js file to implement the bootstrap interface.
Bootstrapped Extension: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Extensions/Bootstrapped_extensions
Good example: http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/02/firefox-4-restartless-add-ons.html
The bootstrap interface can be implemented very simply:
const path = '/PATH/TO/EXTERNAL/CODE.js';
const Cc = Components.classes;
const Ci = Components.interfaces;
const Cu = Components.utils;
var loaderSvc = Cc["#mozilla.org/moz/jssubscript-loader;1"];
.getService(Ci.mozIJSSubScriptLoader);
function install() {}
function uninstall() {}
function shutdown(data, reason) {}
function startup(data, reason) { loaderSvc.loadSubScript("file://"+path); }
You compile the extension by putting install.rdf and bootstrap.js into the top-level of a new zip file, and rename the zip file extension to .xpi.
Step 2. To have a repeatable environment for production & testing, I found the easiest way was to launch Firefox with a profile dedicated to the automation task:
Launch the Firefox profile manager: firefox -ProfileManager
Create a new profile, specifying the location for easy re-use (I called mine testing-profile) and then exit the profile manager.
Remove the new profile from profiles.ini in your user's mozilla config (so that it won't interfere with normal browsing).
Launch Firefox with that profile: firefox -profile /path/to/testing-profile
Install the extension from the file-system (rather than addons.mozilla.org).
Do anything else needed to prepare the profile. (e.g: I needed to add 3rd party certificates and allow pop-up windows for the relevant domain.)
Leave a single about:blank tab open, then exit Firefox.
Snapshot the profile: tar cvf testing-profile-snapshot.tar /path/to/testing-profile
From that point onward, every time I run the automation, I unpack testing-profile-snapshot.tar over the existing testing-profile folder and run firefox -profile /path/to/testing-profile about:blank to use the "pristine" profile.
Step 3. So now when I launch Firefox with the testing-profile it will "include" the external code at /PATH/TO/EXTERNAL/CODE.js on each start-up.
NOTE: I found that I had to move the /PATH/TO/EXTERNAL/ folder elsewhere during step 2 above, as the external JavaScript code would be cached (!!! - undesirable during development) inside the profile (i.e: changes to the external code wouldn't be seen on next launch).
The external code is privileged and can use any of the Mozilla platform APIs. There is however an issue of timing. The moment-in-time at which the external code is included (and hence executed) is one at which no Chrome window objects (and so no DOMWindow objects) yet exist.
So then we need to wait around until there's a useful DOMWindow object:
// useful services.
Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm");
var loader = Cc["#mozilla.org/moz/jssubscript-loader;1"]
.getService(Ci.mozIJSSubScriptLoader);
var wmSvc = Cc["#mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1"]
.getService(Ci.nsIWindowMediator);
var logSvc = Cc["#mozilla.org/consoleservice;1"]
.getService(Ci.nsIConsoleService);
// "user" code entry point.
function user_code() {
// your code here!
// window, gBrowser, etc work as per MozRepl!
}
// get the gBrowser, first (about:blank) domWindow,
// and set up common globals.
var done_startup = 0;
var windowListener;
function do_startup(win) {
if (done_startup) return;
done_startup = 1;
wm.removeListener(windowListener);
var browserEnum = wm.getEnumerator("navigator:browser");
var browserWin = browserEnum.getNext();
var tabbrowser = browserWin.gBrowser;
var currentBrowser = tabbrowser.getBrowserAtIndex(0);
var domWindow = currentBrowser.contentWindow;
window = domWindow.QueryInterface(Ci.nsIInterfaceRequestor)
.getInterface(Ci.nsIWebNavigation)
.QueryInterface(Ci.nsIDocShellTreeItem)
.rootTreeItem.QueryInterface(Ci.nsIInterfaceRequestor)
.getInterface(Ci.nsIDOMWindow);
gBrowser = window.gBrowser;
setTimeout = window.setTimeout;
setInterval = window.setInterval;
alert = function(message) {
Services.prompt.alert(null, "alert", message);
};
console = {
log: function(message) {
logSvc.logStringMessage(message);
}
};
// the first domWindow will finish loading a little later than gBrowser...
gBrowser.addEventListener('load', function() {
gBrowser.removeEventListener('load', arguments.callee, true);
user_code();
}, true);
}
// window listener implementation
windowListener = {
onWindowTitleChange: function(aWindow, aTitle) {},
onCloseWindow: function(aWindow) {},
onOpenWindow: function(aWindow) {
var win = aWindow.QueryInterface(Ci.nsIInterfaceRequestor)
.getInterface(Ci.nsIDOMWindowInternal || Ci.nsIDOMWindow);
win.addEventListener("load", function(aEvent) {
win.removeEventListener("load", arguments.callee, false);
if (aEvent.originalTarget.nodeName != "#document") return;
do_startup();
}
};
// CODE ENTRY POINT!
wm.addListener(windowListener);
Step 4. All of that code executes in the "global" scope. If you later need to load other JavaScript files (e.g: jQuery), call loadSubscript explicitly within the null (global!) scope
function some_user_code() {
loader.loadSubScript.call(null,"file:///PATH/TO/SOME/CODE.js");
loader.loadSubScript.call(null,"http://HOST/PATH/TO/jquery.js");
$ = jQuery = window.$;
}
Now we can use jQuery on any DOMWindow by passing <DOMWindow>.document as the second parameter to the selector call!

How to debug Javascript registered with RegisterClientScriptBlock method

I have many existing scripts that I need to debug, all embededed from code behind.
I would prefer to use Visual Studio 2008 client side debbging features, but breakpoints can only be set inside the aspx file withing a script block.
The problem is I can't put a breakpoint on the scripts because they are all registered from the code behind file(not the aspx file). The scripts are added to the page using ClientScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock Method (Type, String, String, Boolean)
Here is an example(it's not broke, just an example of how it's added to the page).
if (!cs.IsClientScriptBlockRegistered(cstype, csname2))
{
StringBuilder cstext2 = new StringBuilder();
cstext2.Append("<script type=\"text/javascript\"> function DoClick() {");
cstext2.Append("Form1.Message.value='Text from client script.'} </");
cstext2.Append("script>");
cs.RegisterClientScriptBlock(cstype, csname2, cstext2.ToString(), false);
}
Is it possible to debug it without having to pull out each script in a test page?
Edit: thank you
You should add the debugger; directive in your code. Something like this:
cstext2.Append("<script type=\"text/javascript\"> function DoClick() {debugger;");
cstext2.Append("Form1.Message.value='Text from client script.'} </");
...
Also, you will have to adjust your IE as follows:
Tools->internet options->advanced. Make sure that “Disable Script Debugging (other)” and “Disable Script Debugging (Internet Explorer) are NOT checked.
Now, if the DoClick method is called, a special exception will be generated and IE will suggest you to run a new instance of VS where you will be able to debug the script.
I hope, this helps.

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