Select option on dropdown list for web ui testing automation in windows powershell

Sorry if this is too easy of a question, but I'm fairl开发者_JAVA百科y 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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How about using WatiN from PowerShell?