How to use DismissAsync method of Microsoft.Playwright.Core.Dialog class

With Visual Studio projects you can add post-build-events, which will run on you dev machine and in the Azure Pipeline during a build (tested with VSBuild@1)

Example using the VS UI: (you will need to adjust paths for ubuntu)

echo $(TargetDir).playwright\node\win32_x64\playwright.cmd install
$(TargetDir).playwright\node\win32_x64\playwright.cmd install
echo Done

or adding directly to a .csproj

  <Target Name="PostBuild" AfterTargets="PostBuildEvent">
    <Exec Command="echo $(TargetDir).playwright\node\win32_x64\playwright.cmd install;$(TargetDir).playwright\node\win32_x64\playwright.cmd install;echo Done" />
  </Target>

According to their documentation it should be possible. I see you are using StorageState maybe try StorageStatePath instead. Their example:

var context = await browser.NewContextAsync(new()
{
    StorageStatePath = "userCookies.json"
});

https://playwright.dev/dotnet/docs/auth

It's not clear from their documentation, and I never used this library before and could be wrong, but I believe StorageState expects the stringified JSON and not a file path. While StorageStatePath expects a file path / file name to the JSON and will read the file for you.

https://www.javadoc.io/static/com.microsoft.playwright/playwright/1.12.1/com/microsoft/playwright/Browser.NewContextOptions.html#storageState

Found the issue: I was running Visual Studio without admin privileges. Once I chose, "Run as administrator", the local MS Edge launched and the test succeeded. Apparently, Playwright needs elevated rights to launch the Channel local browsers vs. its own binaries, at least on some setups.

I wish, though, that Playwright could launch the stock browsers without having to have elevated privs.

Your page might be recreating the DOM. To overcome that you can use the locator feature from playwright.

var locator = page.Locator("inputSelector");
await locator.ClickAsync();

You can use the selecting selectors based on layout for this.

await page.Locator("span:below(:text(\" Status :\"))").TextContentAsync()

Playwright recommends to use their assertions, since they retry until either the timeout is reached or the condition is met.

Normal assertions like Assert.Equal don't retry.

See here: https://playwright.dev/dotnet/docs/test-assertions#locator-assertions-to-have-text

For your use-case it would be the following:

var locator = Page.Locator(".title");
await Expect(locator).ToHaveTextAsync("Welcome, Test User");

Using ideas from comments on my answer I was able to accomplish the goal. I ended up passing a cancellation token to a Task.Delay(30000, token). Then if I got the data I wanted and set the result value, I just cancelled the token.

string? result = null;
var tokenSource = new CancellationTokenSource();
var cancelToken = tokenSource.Token;

// Start listening for new pages (ClickAsync below opens in a new page)
context.Page += (_, newPage) =>
{
  // From the new page, start listening for requests that page generates
  newPage.Request += async (_, request) =>
  {
    if (request.Url.Contains("some_identifier"))
    {
      await newPage.GotoAsync(request.Url);
      result = await newPage.InnerTextAsync("body");
      tokenSource.Cancel(); // <-- Got what we needed, cancel 30 second timer
    }
  };
};

await mainPage.Locator("a#somelink").ClickAsync();

try {
  await Task.Delay(30000, cancelToken); // <-- Timeout after 30 seconds.
}
catch
{
  // Not a fan of tokenSource.Cancel() throwing an exception, but I can deal with it.
}

return result;

The author is available via:

var author = (string)TestContext.CurrentContext.Test.Properties.Get("Author");

If there are multiple Author attributes, this will retrieve the first one. If you want to see them all, use

var authors = (IList)TestContext.CurrentContext.Test.Properties["Author"];

The error came from me not correctly understanding Docker stages. Here a fixed Dockerfile, where I installed Playwright in the base stage:

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:6.0 AS base
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install curl gnupg
RUN curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x  | bash -
RUN apt-get -y install nodejs
RUN npx playwright install
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    fonts-liberation\
    libasound2\
    libatk-bridge2.0-0\
    libatk1.0-0\
    libatspi2.0-0\
    libcairo2\
    libcups2\
    libdbus-1-3\
    libdrm2\
    libgbm1\
    libglib2.0-0\
    libgtk-3-0\
    libnspr4\
    libnss3\
    libpango-1.0-0\
    libx11-6\
    libxcb1\
    libxcomposite1\
    libxdamage1\
    libxext6\
    libxfixes3\
    libxrandr2
WORKDIR /app

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:6.0-focal  AS build
WORKDIR /src
COPY ["Dashboard/Dashboard.csproj", "Dashboard/"]
RUN dotnet restore "Dashboard/Dashboard.csproj"
COPY . .
WORKDIR "/src/Dashboard"
RUN dotnet build "Dashboard.csproj" -c Release -o /app/build
FROM build AS publish
RUN dotnet publish "Dashboard.csproj" -c Release -o /app/publish

FROM base AS final
WORKDIR /app
COPY --from=publish /app/publish .
ENTRYPOINT ["dotnet", "Dashboard.dll"]