We are making available a new update for the WebAii 2.0 Beta. This Beta is version 2.0.4. This should be the last beta release of the WebAii 2.0 framework. The next release should be the final release! Expect the final release sometime in November this year.

Download WebAii 2.0 Beta (2.0.4) from here.

Many customers have already moved to the WebAii 2.0 release and the feedback has been tremendous. We know the 2.0 final release is going to be one of our best releases given the large amount of adoption and dogfooding in the community! This release contains over 300 fixes since 2.0.2. Some that are worth noting and that customers have run into:

1. TypeText reliability issues.
2. Added Custom control mappings collection and global override support.
3. New FrameworkElement.GetProperties() method returns a list of all public properties on the live FrameworkElement and their types.
4. Scan entire visual tree when UID not found at expected node. Fixes Drag & Drop cases. Add new ElementNotFound exception.
5. Fixed crash in Window.CutBitmap().
6. Added Support for Focus() on the HtmlControl + Keyboard support.
7. Added KeyBoard Processing Events.
8. Use UID for validating elements as we walk down the visual tree to act on an element. If UID does not match at any specific level, enumerate all the child nodes at that level looking for a match. Sometimes the path changes out from under us between the find and the operation.
9. Reset _isProxy when the real element is found and being created.
10. Fix setting cookie. Was creating cookies like Name=Name=Value.
11. Exposed WindowMoved event on the GenericWindow.
12. Expanded events fired from Generic window.
13. New HtmlControl.IsActiveElement property returns true if the HTML element has the keyboard focus.
14. Added Support for Attribute Exists/Missing.
15. Fix for testing using ASP.NET local development server on x64 machine.
16. Fixed issue when calling Wait.For() with a lambda expression as the assert condition
17. Fixed GetBitmap to truncate the rectangle rather than throw an exception.
18. Added Find.AllByCustom method.
19. Added new XMultiMgr setting. When set to true, we use the WebAii 1.1 connection method, which supports multiple processes doing testing.
20. Change how we wait for the SL extension to be loaded.
21. Fix launching IE-8 regression.

In addition to the WebAii 2.0 framework, we have been busy with Design Canvas 2.0 which is going to leverage all the Silverlight work we have done in framework to offer a rich Silverlight recording experience. In addition to Silverlight support, Design Canvas 2.0 is packed with rich features including a new automation overlay surface entirely built using WPF that offers an intuitive interface and rich interaction with the live page. Stay tuned for more details….