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In this article we will talk about running Selenium test with .Net core 2.0 Preview 2 using Visual Studio 2017 15.3 I am very happy and excited to write this article, since many of automation testers like you and me were waiting for this news and its finally happening ! Here is the System Requirement for running Selenium with .Net core
  1. Download .Net Core 2.0 Preview 2
  2. Download Visual Studio 2017 15.3
Once installed, you need to follow following steps

Step 1

Create new Unit Test Project for .Net Core

Step 2

Add following Nuget references to the project

And it looks something like this

Step 3

Finally write the following code and its available GitHub here
    [TestClass]
    public class UnitTest1
    {
        [TestMethod]
        public void TestMethod1()
        {
            IWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(@"C:\Users\Karthik\source\repos\SeleniumWithCore2\SeleniumWithCore2\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.0\");
            driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://executeautomation.com");
            Console.WriteLine("Test Completed !!!");
        }
    }
You can watch the complete discussion in the video below Thanks for reading the post and watching the video!!! Please leave your comments and let me know if there is anything I should update in this post. Thanks, Karthik KK

Post Author: Karthik kk

3 Replies to “Selenium is now supported in .Net Core 2.0 Preview 2 with Visual Studio 2017 15.3”

    1. Yes Sachin, Its not supported yet, I guess it may support started next version, but there is no documentation or news on the same.

      Thanks,
      Karthik KK

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