Disable shadow copy? ( chromedriver.exe cannot be refereced)

dlwiii · November 2021

I have a script which uses chromedriver.exe. I cannot reference this file or I get:

CS0009 Metadata file 'C:\dimension\LinqPad\chromedriver.exe' could not be opened -- PE image doesn't contain managed metadata.

So I don't reference it. Half the time my script runs fine. Half the time I get

DriverServiceNotFoundException: The file [whatever]\AppData\Local\Temp\5\LINQPad5_azelyqpv\shadow_yoysfv\chromedriver.exe does not exist. The driver can be downloaded at http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/index.html

It half works, which gets the job done, but I would love if this could work properly. Is there a way to reference chromedriver.exe properly? Is there a way to not shadow? Or is there something else to do?

Cheers,
Daniel

sdflysha · November 2021

Hi @dlwiii , here is my way:

public static class WebDriverHelper
{
    public static EdgeDriver CreateEdge()
    {
        string Version = "90.0.818.42";
        string baseDirectory = @"C:\_\3rd\edge-driver";
        string DestinationDirectory = @$"{baseDirectory}\{Version}";
        string BinaryPath = @$"{DestinationDirectory}\msedgedriver.exe";

        async Task EnsureInstalled()
        {
            if (!File.Exists(BinaryPath))
            {
                Directory.CreateDirectory(DestinationDirectory.Dump());
                using var http = new HttpClient();
                using var stream = await http.GetStreamAsync(@$"https://msedgedriver.azureedge.net/{Version}/edgedriver_win64.zip".Dump("downloading driver..."));
                using var archive = new ZipArchive(stream);
                archive.ExtractToDirectory(DestinationDirectory);

                Debug.Assert(File.Exists(BinaryPath), "web driver download failed?");
                "driver downloaded and extracted".Dump();
            }
        }

        EnsureInstalled().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
        return new EdgeDriver(DestinationDirectory.Dump(), new EdgeOptions
        {
            UseChromium = true,
        });
    }

    public static ChromeDriver CreateChrome(ChromeOptions options = null)
    {
        var driverPath = new DirectoryInfo(typeof(ChromeDriver).Assembly.Location).Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.Parent.FullName + @"\selenium.webdriver.chromedriver\94.0.4606.6100\driver\win32";
        options = options ?? new ChromeOptions();
        return new ChromeDriver(driverPath, options);
    }
}

Disable shadow copy? ( chromedriver.exe cannot be refereced)

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