My OS in Windows 10. I am trying to run Selenium project that was working fine around 3 years ago however I am running in the unexpected error message
The specified executable is not a valid application for this OS platform.
Steps I have taken so far: Re-ran VS2015 as administrator and got same error, then checked if chromedriver.exe is there in the project directory, it is.
Updated Nuget packages of Selenium.WebDriver.ChromeDriver to 74.0.3729.6, Selenium.WebDriver to 3.141, and Selenium.Support to 3.141 in vain.
Tried running it from a basic console application
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (var crawler = new Crawler())
{
crawler.Navigate("https://www.google.com");
}
}
same error.
After some research I have found this that due to some changes in .Net core I need to fire processes differently.
However, I am not in control of running .exe directly, this is done internally by ChromeDriver OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver..ctor(String chromeDriverDirectory, ChromeOptions options) and only parameters passed are directory and chrome running options...
Below is stack trace where error originated,
at System.Diagnostics.Process.StartWithCreateProcess(ProcessStartInfo startInfo)
at System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()
at OpenQA.Selenium.DriverService.Start()
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.DriverServiceCommandExecutor.Execute(Command commandToExecute)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.Execute(String driverCommandToExecute, Dictionary`2 parameters)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver.StartSession(ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.RemoteWebDriver..ctor(ICommandExecutor commandExecutor, ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)
at OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver..ctor(String chromeDriverDirectory, ChromeOptions options)
at WebAnalyzer.Controllers.HomeController.About()
I am sure by now someone has managed to run Selenium with new changes.
How do I run Selenium ChromeDriver so it wouldn't break at creating the process at StartWithCreateProcess ?
