SendKeys fails to push repeated characters

expected : …gNPPumwQw… actual sent: …gNPumwQw…

we noticed on azure microsoft hosted agents, win app driver sendkeys sometimes skips the repeated character in string. (e.g. see portion of string above when PP is sent then it just takes 1 P instead of both) Locally it works fine so it is something specific to environment where it runs. any workaround to this ? anything env specific stuff we should set on the pipeline agent may be a powershell script ? Version of winappdriver is 1.2.1

[sachinerandecapita]

I was able to put the content on clipboard using powershell. (not using powershell sdk). And it works fine and consistent success both on pipeline and local machine.

Didn’t use System.Windows.Forms because to use it project must be set to use windows .net 5 <TargetFramework>net5.0-windows</TargetFramework>, which wasn’t suitable for us to keep things platform independent.

[anunay1]

You can use the custom method which can be used like set Immediate text

public void SetText(WindowsElement editField, string text)
        {
            Thread STAThread = new Thread(
                delegate ()
                {
                    System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetText(text);
                    editField.Click();
                    driver.Keyboard.SendKeys(OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Control + "v" + OpenQA.Selenium.Keys.Control);
                });
            STAThread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
            STAThread.Start();
            STAThread.Join();
        }