How do you get WatiN to work on Windows Server 2008 with IE8?

Question

My problem is that I cannot get a simple WatiN test to reliably work on my development machine which is running Windows Server 2008 and IE8.

I have seen a couple of

Answer 1

IE8 definatley works with WatiN, and has done since the first public release of IE8.

If something is working in debug but not when running it usually points to a timing or Server 2008 security lockdown issue.

You should putting the line that is failing in a try catch, then if there is an exception pause for say half a sec and then re-try again.

Also ensure that you have turned off all the extra server security lockdowns, and are running nUnit as administrator to avoid UAC getting in the way.