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Vaughan.Douglas wrote:First of all, I wouldn't do this. You really want the code in a usercode collection to be generic, and you can edit the signature of the method to only accept specific object types if you really want to get down to it. This community would be more than willing to help you generalize a code sample to fit this ideal.
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• Perform a get on your WPF object and store it in a module variable/parameter
• Create a usercode method that does everything else ie convert from string to date and compare the value

<UserCodeMethod> _
     Public Shared Sub ValidateDate(myAttribute As String, myExpected As String, myObjectInfo As Ranorex.Core.Repository.RepoItemInfo)
			
     Report.Log(ReportLevel.Info, String.Format("Attempting to convert the '{2}' attribute of '{3}'; '{0}' and the expected value '{1}' to valid dates for comparison", Host.Current.FindSingle(myObjectInfo.AbsolutePath).Item(myAttribute).ToString(), myExpected, myAttribute, myObjectInfo.Name))

     Validate.AreEqual(StringToDate(Host.Current.FindSingle(myObjectInfo.AbsolutePath).Item(myAttribute).ToString()), StringToDate(myExpected), "Expect '{0}' to match '{1}'", False)
			
End Sub

		<UserCodeMethod> _
		Public Shared Function StringToDate(ByVal dateAsString As String) As Date
			Dim myDate As Date
			Date.TryParse(dateAsString, myDate)
			Return myDate
		End Function

Vaughan.Douglas wrote:You're approach should work, so maybe there is an issue with your namespaces? How many projects do you have in your solution?

As for a more generalized means of accomplishing the same thing, you could split it up between multiple actions in the recorded module.

odklizec wrote:Are you sure about the bold part?...

EugeneMkv wrote: Thanks. But I prefer to do it in one place.
I will not copy-paste the same a code for getting the text-values from GUI for every recording. This is ridiculous and goes against the OOP paradigm.

Vaughan.Douglas wrote: You'll notice the <UserCodeMethod> tag in the provided code samples. They are part of a UserCode repository that resides in an entirely different project within the same solution. There is no copy/paste involved.

EugeneMkv wrote: I'm not into VB.NET stuff but into C# instead.
Ok, then, the only one problem for me is to access my repo...

[UserCodeMethod]
public static void ValidateDate(string myAttribute, string myExpected, Ranorex.Core.Repository.RepoItemInfo myObjectInfo)
{
     Report.Log(ReportLevel.Info, string.Format("Attempting to convert the '{2}' attribute of '{3}'; '{0}' and the expected value '{1}' to valid dates for comparison", Host.Current.FindSingle(myObjectInfo.AbsolutePath).Item(myAttribute).ToString(), myExpected, myAttribute, myObjectInfo.Name));
    Validate.AreEqual(StringToDate(Host.Current.FindSingle(myObjectInfo.AbsolutePath).Item(myAttribute).ToString()), StringToDate(myExpected), "Expect '{0}' to match '{1}'", false);
}

Host.Current.FindSingle(myObjectInfo.AbsolutePath).Item(myAttribute).ToString()

But the truth is that I did not tried it within the test automation helpers project.

Then the Host.Current.FindSingle takes a RxPath as an argument and it goes out and finds the object so you don't need a reference to your repository.

EugeneMkv wrote: But is it possible to create common User Code Library without using namespace Ranorex_Automation_Helpers?