I have a external windows forms application which doesnt have source code or dll.Ofcourse it comes with a exe to launch and I would like to programatically access the form fields of this windows form, fill in the data and submit the form programatically through my own windows application. Something like screen scraping in web apps.

Is this possible and If it is then how?

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Santhosh Kumar, Senior Programmer, accenture

Check out this tool. Beware that reverse engineering like this is almost always expressly forbidden in any kind of license agreement.

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Hans Passant.

Hi Santhosh,

Another way is to use the Accessibility APIs to automate the target application. However, you still need to be careful about the license terms like nobugz stressed.

Or maybe you can let us know more about your scenarios?

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