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Sorry if this is too easy of a question, but I'm fairly new to Windows Powershell and all of the tutorials I've looked at for dropdown lists show you how to display one to the user.

Anyway what I am trying to do is test my web application using Powershell. I need to change a dropdownlist to a specific choice, I can use the value or index to do this it doesn't matter to me.

Thanks for any help you can give.

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Turns out the easiest way to do it was to just set the value of the control to the index I wanted like this:

$ie = new-object -com "InternetExplorer.Application"
$ie.navigate("mywebsite")
$ie.visible = $true
$doc = $ie.document
$listbox = $doc.getElementByID(listboxID)
$listbox.value = 1

This selects the first value in the list box. I have no idea how to tell what that value is if you don't already know it. Or select based off of text but I don't need that.

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You can select the value based on text. E.g. if you have a dropdown with a choice of colors you can do: $listbox.value = "Blue"
Text values are case sensitive by the way.
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How about using WatiN from PowerShell?

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I'm looking at it, Do I have to download it or is it something I can use with basic powershell?
You have to download WatiN from the first link and the PowerWatin script from the second link. But it will make testing easier as WatiN takes care of a lot of the browser specific stuff.

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