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Darrell's avatar
Darrell
Occasional Visitor
6 months ago

WinForms existing name mappings broken with latest update

Hello.

I have been developing automated tests for a legacy Windows Forms application. Today, I was prompted to update to 15.65.12.7, so I did. Wasn't the first time I've updated. I quickly found out that all of my tests were breaking immediately after startup.

Many of my mappings use the property "WinFormsControlName" available on all WinForms objects and TestComplete could not find this property. What made it worse is that there were very few properties I could select (perhaps a dozen) so I might not even be able to uniquely identify my windows/controls. Clearly this is not acceptable.

I saw a post online from many years ago with a similar problem and the solution was install the .NET Application Support extension. But I did have it installed. I uninstalled and reinstalled the latest version of TestComplete; the problem persisted. Installing the previous version of TestComplete (15.64.3.7) fixed it.

Is there anything I could do to stay up to date?

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  • msensoy1903's avatar
    msensoy1903
    5 months ago

    Hi, Yes I have downloaded and it works without breaking anything lol.

     

  • JDR2500's avatar
    JDR2500
    Frequent Contributor
    6 months ago

    We encountered this same problem and had to rollback our TestComplete installation.  What a mess...

  • mcbane's avatar
    mcbane
    Contributor
    6 months ago

    Does anyone have an ETA on the fix? Using an earlier version works, but it's not ideal.

  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
    Champion Level 3
    6 months ago

    If you have a working version of TC, then don't upgrade. I have reverted back to v15.55 many times, as this still works fine against the latest version of Edge and Chrome.

  • msensoy1903's avatar
    msensoy1903
    Occasional Contributor
    6 months ago

    I have exact same issue and waiting for support to help. 

    How did you install the previous version?

    • rraghvani's avatar
      rraghvani
      Champion Level 3
      6 months ago

      Uninstall current version, then install the previous version - providing you have the installation file.

      • msensoy1903's avatar
        msensoy1903
        Occasional Contributor
        6 months ago

        Unfortunately I do not have the installation file. I was doing my updates through testcomplete directly.

  • mcbane's avatar
    mcbane
    Contributor
    5 months ago

    Has anyone checked to see if 15.66 addresses this? The version history states:

    • Addressed the problems with TestComplete not being able to recognize elements inside of the WPF application.

    I don't know if that is related. It doesn't sound like it, but what do I know? :)

    • msensoy1903's avatar
      msensoy1903
      Occasional Contributor
      5 months ago

      Hi, Yes I have downloaded and it works without breaking anything lol.