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April 26, 2006
Dealing with Frustrating Development Issues
So I was ready to continue ABCWebTest development today and implement some mouse automation into the product (very useful for testing Ajax web applications) but I kept running into the same error/exception when I ran my unit tests.
The details aren't important but if you must know (and there is a selfish side to this post to solicit help) I get a System.InvalidCastException when I try and obtain the "parentWindow" property from an MSHTML.IHTMLDocument2 object. Try as I might to work my way around it, I can't find a way to avoid this exception today.
The really frustrating thing is that this was working before! In previous days, there was no exception. I tried a few techniques to get past this blocker - I took a brief nap to come back with fresh eyes (no luck), I tried researching for a solution to this problem on the web (no luck), I tried reading other people's unrelated blogs to take a break from banging my head against the wall (no luck). So in the end, I decided it's better to stop banging my head against the wall, take my losses for the day and move on to other business activities.
Posted by Misha Rybalov at April 26, 2006 11:34 AM