Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.FailedToPerformActionOnBlockedControlException: Another control is blocking the control. Please make the blocked control visible and retry the action

Question

Hi All,

I have a text box in my application and trying to type some texxt on it through CodedUi test script.

I am getting the below blocking exception while doing so and script is failed. This exception is intermittent. sometimes it passed and sometimes it is not. so results are always inconsistent.

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.FailedToPerformActionOnBlockedControlException: Another control is blocking the control. Please make the blocked control visible and retry the action

Additional Details:
TechnologyName:  'UIA'
ControlType:  'Edit'
AutomationId:  'InputTextBox'
 ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Exception from HRESULT: 0xF004F003

 

Can you please help me what could be the root cause of this issue ?

Any help/hint in this regard would be highly appreciated

thanks in adavnce!

Reagrds,

Bhanu

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Bhanu Prakash pemmasani

Answer 1

I just posted a similar response. Can you cut-paste the recorded script for this action (and the control's UIMap)? Also, when it fails with the above exception, do you see any visible control blocking it. Try the following :

try

{

Perform your action on the Edit control;

}

catch (FailedToPerformActionOnBlockedControlException)

{

Fetch the bounding rectangle of the Editcontrol;

UITestControl controlBlocking = UITestControlFactory.FromPoint(rect.X + rect.Width/2, rect.Y + rect.Height/2);

}

What does 'controlBlocking' return ?

 

Thanks,

~ Tapas

Answer 2

I have same issue. I am trying to click on a Silverlight image which opens up a Popup window. I tried above code you suggested and i see controlBlocking object is

[Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting.WpfControls.WpfEdit] = {Name [Text Editor], ControlType [Edit], AutomationId [WpfTextView], RuntimeId [7,7088,35645798]}

which is strange. Can you please throw some light here?

Answer 3

Just to be completely sure,  you are saying, when you clicked on the control, Coded UI Test recorded a click on an Image control. During playback, at the same control position, Coded UI Test now reports that the control at that point is a Edit control. Am I correct ?

How does this Edit control and Image control interplay in the UI? I mean, what's there relation in the actual UI hierarchy. Also, what does UIspy/Inspect tool identify the control at that point as ?

Thanks,

~ Tapas

Answer 4

This issue was resolved offline. The image control is actually below another control in the Z-index; hence it cannot be clickable. The only way out is to get its bounding rectangle and do an absolute screen coordinates click.

~ Tapas

Answer 5

hi Tapas,

i am getting following error while playing the script..

i did not get where you want me to run above code to get the visible control

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.FailedToPerformActionOnBlockedControlException: Another control is blocking the control. Please make the blocked control visible and retry the action

Additional Details:
TechnologyName:  'MSAA'
Name:  'account'
ControlType:  'Edit'
 ---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Exception from HRESULT: 0xF004F003