QuickTest Pro – List of mic* Keywords
Here is a list of mic* keywords that can be used in QuickTest Pro. I do not have documentation for each of the keywords. I have posted these has a quick reference guide for myself, and others. These...
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When creating reusable actions in QuickTest Pro, there are times you may come across the need to dynamically access an object within your application that may or may not exist within your Object...
View ArticleAccessing Methods of ActiveX Objects
I have been using QuickTest Pro for several years now and have just discovered a simple, but highly useful, feature. In dealing with ActiveX controls, there are many times when the ActiveX add-in for...
View ArticleUsing QTP to Connect to an Oracle Database with Instant Client
Using QTP to Connect to an Oracle Database with Instant Client by Geoffrey Rodgers Need a light-weight ODBC connection to an Oracle database for you QTP scripts? Oracle Instant Client is just the...
View ArticleUpdating ActiveX Datagrids in QTP
In my recent testing efforts, I have comes across a desktop windows form (written in VB6) involving updating a data grid and then calculating another field’s value based on those updates. In order to...
View ArticleCreating an Excel document from MS Word
I have just come across the need to create an Excel workbook from a MS Word macro. I have simplified this code for the blog to simply move all text from Word into a new Excel workbook. This will...
View ArticleConverting SQL DateTime to a Simple Date
Just to remind myself at a later date, this is a SQL Query that shows how to strip the timestamp from a datetime value. Declare @fulldate datetime Set @fulldate = getdate() Declare @shortdate...
View ArticleDynamically Selecting a Value in a C# DropdownList Control
In a recent internal C# web project, I needed to accept a URL parameter and use that value to select an item value, if it exists, within a DropDownList control. I have provided the code, along with...
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