Start ClickOnce Application with AppiumOptions

Hello. I have some problems with starting click-once application by AppiumOptions class. My code is too simple:

AppiumOptions appiumOptions = new AppiumOptions();
appiumOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("ms:waitForAppLaunch", "30");
appiumOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("ms:experimental-webdriver", false);
appiumOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("deviceName", "WindowsPC");
appiumOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("platformName", "Windows");
appiumOptions.AddAdditionalCapability("app", "C:\Path\To\My\ApplicationName.appref-ms");

var winDriver = new WindowsDriver<WindowsElement>(new Uri("http://127.0.0.1:4723"), appiumOptions);

and I catch Exception “OpenQA.Selenium.WebDriverException: ‘Failed to locate opened application window with appId: C:\Path\To\My\ApplicationName.appref-ms, and processId: 7356’” on the last line, but my click once app;ication starts without any problems.

I am using ms:waitForAppLaunch with 30 seconds of timeout (it’s enought) but it can’t help me.

[vberesnev]

@mialeska It seems I find the resolve of this problem! But it’s too ugly, lol 😃 Using Inspect.exe I noticed that refresh of UI elements starts after mouse over one of element second page. But I haven’t access to this element by name or id before refreshing. So my actions: I open second page, move mouse coursor to the element by pixcel coordinate (my app is fulscreen), after that WAD refreshs tree and I have access to the UI elements of the second page. Thank you so much, you gave me way to resolving my issue! 😃 Have a nice day!

[vberesnev]

@splekhan My solution depends on app window, so if app will not be open full screen or place of elelment will be changed - my solution will go to trash 😃

I tried reopen win app driver and reattach my application to it, but it didn’t work for me