Setup Selenium in Visual Studio

Steps to configure Selenium webDriver in Visual Studio:

• Step 1:  Download and Install Visual Studio into your system
• Step 2:  Create a new folder named as "Selenium" in "c:\" drive
• Step 3:  Download and extract chrome driver exe and IEDriverServer exe 
• Step 4:  Copy these .exe files to newly created Selenium folder (c:\Selenium)
• Step 5:  Open control panel and search "Path" in search bar.
• Step 6:  Now click on "Edit the system variables" as shown below

• Step 7:  In system Properties pop up window click on "Environment variables..." under advanced tab.

• Step 8: Select path and click on edit as shown below

• Step 9: In "Edit environment Variable" window  click on "New" and add "C:\Selenium" and finally click on "OK"

• Step 10: Open Visual Studio and click on New Project
• Step 11: Select Console Application and enter Name of your choice(In our example its "hello world") and click on "OK"

• Step 12: In Visual Studio navigate to Tools>NuGet Package Manager>Manage NuGet Packages for solution and click on it.

• Step 13:Search Selenium in the search bar and  later install and add the following packages to the current solution:-
• Selenium.WebDriver
• Selenium.Suppport
• Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver
• Selenium.WebDriver.IEDriver

Finally we have finished setting up selenium in Visual Studio!!!

In our next tutorial let us  automate our first program !