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iOS phone link opening message app instead of calling the number

I want a phone number from a TextView to call the phone number when clicked:
The issue I am facing is that when clicking the link, the message app is opening instead. I tried the following code in iOS 12 and it worked as expected, but when I try on iOS 13 and 14, the message app opens instead of making a call using the "phone dialer app".
Tentative 1:
textView.Editable = false;
textView.DataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorType.PhoneNumber;
Tentative 2:
var phoneNumberLink = new Dictionary<string, string>(){ { "(855) 757-7328","tel:8557577328" } }
textView.Editable = false;
textView.SetAttributedTextForLinks("Please call us at (855) 757-7328", phoneNumberLink);

Actually, telpromt://0123456789 also did not work. I had to intercept the interaction with URL, the recommended ShouldInteractWithUrl did not work (ShouldInteractWithUrl was not triggered or called), so I had to use AllowUrlInteraction instead. The code looked something like this:
var description = new KiteEmbeddedLinkTextView()
{
Editable = false,
DataDetectorTypes = UIDataDetectorType.PhoneNumber,
Text = message.MessageText
};
description.AllowUrlInteraction += AllowUrlInteraction;
private bool AllowUrlInteraction(UITextView textView, NSUrl url, NSRange characterRange, UITextItemInteraction interaction)
{
UIApplication.SharedApplication.OpenUrl(url);
return false;
}
For some reason none of the previous options worked for me, besides this one.
See:
https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/60345/uitextview-and-clickable-phonenumbers
How to intercept click on link in UITextView?

As mentioned https://forums.xamarin.com/discussion/33798/open-phone-dialer-from-app
The correct way to open the dialer is
telprompt://0123456789
Make sure that there are no spaces.

How to point to the correct Store in Outlook automation by C#?

I have a lot of VBA automation that interlinks an Outlook and Word solution; it is fine, but time is inexorable... so, I'm start to decorating and extending that old solution, wraping it with C#/VS2017.
Through a conventional Winform I can choose my patients, and from this action I do a lot of actions, including open the correct Outlook contact; that's the problem, because I can't get the correct Store; the patients.pst, depending on the machine, may be the 1st, 2nd, 3rd...
In VBA I do this:
WhichStoreNameToPointAt="patients"
Set myNamespace = myolApp.GetNamespace("MAPI")
For i = 1 To myNamespace.Stores.Count Step 1
If myNamespace.Stores.item(i).DisplayName = WhichStoreNameToPointAt Then
intOutlookItemStore = i
End if
End If
Set myFolderPatients = myNamespace.Stores.item(intOutlookItemStore).GetDefaultFolder(olFolderContacts)
And it always functions like a charm.
In C# I tried a lot of variations, and could not point to the correct store:
public void OpenPatientContact(string patientName)
{
Outlook.Store whichStore = null;
Outlook.NameSpace nameSpace = OlkApp.Session;
int i = 1;
foreach (Outlook.Folder folder in nameSpace.Folders)
{
bool p = false;
if (whichStoreNameToPointAt == folder.Name)
{
p = true;
whichStore = folder.Store;
//Correct Store selected; I can tell because of this watch:
//whichStore.displayname == whichStoreNameToPointAt
}
i++;
if (p)
break;
}
var contactItemsOlk = whichStore.Session.GetDefaultFolder
(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts).Items;
// The problem is below; always the first Store
Outlook.ContactItem contact = (Outlook.ContactItem)contactItemsOlk
.Find(string.Format("[FullName]='{0}'", patientName)); //[1];
if (contact != null)
{
contact.Display(true);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("The contact information was not found.");
}
}
Unfortunately, it keeps pointing ever to the same first Store, the one that has no patients...
If I change the Store order I can get past this and test other stuff, but of course it is not the right way.
Any other heads/eyes to see the light?
TIA

While seated writing the question, looking at a yellow rubber duck - and a lot of other stuff that belongs to my 1 yo daughter ;), I realized that whichStore.Session.GetDefaultFolder is a little strange in this context. I only changed this
var contactItemsOlk = whichStore.Session.GetDefaultFolder
(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts).Items;
To that:
var contactItemsOlk = whichStore.GetDefaultFolder
(Outlook.OlDefaultFolders.olFolderContacts).Items;
Voilá! Magic happens with C# too!
Session returns the default NameSpace object for the current session.
PS: yellow rubber duck; guys of The Pragmatic Programmer really knows some secrets and tricks ;)
Thanks Thomas and Hunt!

Visual Studio Debugger Extension get user settings

I'm writing a visual studio extension based on the Concord Samples Hello World project. The goal is to let the user filter out stack frames by setting a list of search strings. If any of the search strings are in a stack frame, it is omitted.
I've got the filter working for a hardcoded list. That needs to be in a non-package-based dll project in order for the debugger to pick it up. And I have a vsix project that references that dll with an OptionPageGrid to accept the list of strings. But I can't for the life of me find a way to connect them.
On the debugger side, my code looks something like this:
DkmStackWalkFrame[] IDkmCallStackFilter.FilterNextFrame(DkmStackContext stackContext, DkmStackWalkFrame input)
{
if (input == null) // null input frame indicates the end of the call stack. This sample does nothing on end-of-stack.
return null;
if (input.InstructionAddress == null) // error case
return new[] { input };
DkmWorkList workList = DkmWorkList.Create(null);
DkmLanguage language = input.Process.EngineSettings.GetLanguage(new DkmCompilerId());
DkmInspectionContext inspection = DkmInspectionContext.Create(stackContext.InspectionSession, input.RuntimeInstance, input.Thread, 1000,
DkmEvaluationFlags.None, DkmFuncEvalFlags.None, 10, language, null);
string frameName = "";
inspection.GetFrameName(workList, input, DkmVariableInfoFlags.None, result => GotFrameName(result, out frameName));
workList.Execute();
CallstackCollapserDataItem dataItem = CallstackCollapserDataItem.GetInstance(stackContext);
bool omitFrame = false;
foreach (string filterString in dataItem.FilterStrings)
{
if (frameName.Contains(filterString))
{
omitFrame = true;
}
}
The CallstackCollapserDataItem is where I theoretically need to retrieve the strings from user settings. But I don't have access to any services/packages in order to e.g. ask for WritableSettingsStore, like in You've Been Haacked's Example. Nor can I get my OptionPageGrid, like in the MSDN Options Example.
The other thing I tried was based on this StackOverflow question. I overrode the LoadSettingsFromStorage function of my OptionPageGrid and attempted to set a static variable on a public class in the dll project. But if that code existed in the LoadSettingsFromStorage function at all, the settings failed to load without even entering the function. Which felt like voodoo to me. Comment out the line that sets the variable, the breakpoint hits normally, the settings load normally. Restore it, and the function isn't even entered.
I'm at a loss. I really just want to pass a string into my Concord extension, and I really don't care how.

Ok, apparently all I needed to do was post the question here for me to figure out the last little pieces. In my CallstackCollapserDataItem : DkmDataItem class, I added the following code:
private CallstackCollapserDataItem()
{
string registryRoot = DkmGlobalSettings.RegistryRoot;
string propertyPath = "vsix\\CallstackCollapserOptionPageGrid";
string fullKey = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\" + registryRoot + "\\ApplicationPrivateSettings\\" + propertyPath;
string savedStringSetting = (string)Registry.GetValue(fullKey, "SearchStrings", "");
string semicolonSeparatedStrings = "";
// The setting resembles "1*System String*Foo;Bar"
if (savedStringSetting != null && savedStringSetting.Length > 0 && savedStringSetting.Split('*').Length == 3)
{
semicolonSeparatedStrings = savedStringSetting.Split('*')[2];
}
}
vsix is the assembly in which CallstackCollapserOptionPageGrid is a DialogPage, and SearchStrings is its public property that's saved out of the options menu.

Selenium can't handle multiple ChromiumWebBrowser instances in C#

I have two instances of the ChromiumWebBrowser in my WinForms project (Visual Studio 2012). My goal is to have the second browser instance "copy" the behavior of the user input in the first browser instance. I can successfully retrieve the input from the first browser, and I managed to hook up Selenium in the project as well.
However, I'm having one issue. Whenever Selenium sends its commands, the first browser is the one that responds to them. For the life of me, I can't seem to figure out how to make the second browser respond. Whenever I completely remove the first browser, the second one starts responding correctly, but adding the first browser again will make only have the first browser use the Selenium commands. I even tried to switch out the moments the browsers are added to the form, but to no avail: whenever there are two available, the wrong one is responsive.
Relevant code:
public BrowserManager(Controller controller, string startingUrl)
{
_controller = controller;
var settings = new CefSettings { RemoteDebuggingPort = 9515 };
Cef.Initialize(settings);
// Input browser
inputBrowser = new ChromiumWebBrowser(startingUrl);
var obj = new XPathHelper(this);
inputBrowser.RegisterJsObject("bound", obj); //Standard object registration
inputBrowser.FrameLoadEnd += obj.OnFrameLoadEnd;
// Output browser
var browserSettings = new BrowserSettings();
var requestContextSettings = new RequestContextSettings { CachePath = "" };
var requestContext = new RequestContext(requestContextSettings);
outputBrowser = new ChromiumWebBrowser(startingUrl);
outputBrowser.RequestContext = requestContext;
outputBrowser.AddressChanged += InitializeOutputBrowser;
outputBrowser.Enabled = false;
outputBrowser.Name = "outputBrowser";
}
The selenium part:
public class SeleniumHelper
{
public SeleniumHelper()
{
DoWorkAsync();
}
private Task DoWorkAsync()
{
Task.Run(() =>
{
string chromeDriverDir = #"ActionRecorder\bin\x64\Debug\Drivers";
var chromeDriverService = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService(chromeDriverDir);
chromeDriverService.HideCommandPromptWindow = true;
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.BinaryLocation = #"ActionRecorder\bin\x64\Debug\ActionRecorder.exe";
options.DebuggerAddress = "127.0.0.1:9515";
options.AddArguments("--enable-logging");
using (IWebDriver driver = new OpenQA.Selenium.Chrome.ChromeDriver(chromeDriverService, options))
{
driver.Navigate().GoToUrl("http://www.google.com");
var query = driver.FindElement(By.Name("q"));
query.SendKeys("A google search test");
query.Submit();
}
});
return null;
}
}
And finally, a screenshot for some visualization:
Some help with the issue would be very much appreciated. If i missed some crucial info, feel free to ask for it. Thanks in advance!
Greetz,
Tybs

The behavior is correct. You have one debug address and you can only have one debug address for CEF. Which means when you use Selenium it is only seeing one browser.
By default Selenium will send an command to current active Tab or Window. Now in your case you have multiple Chrome view embedded, but they are technically Chrome Tab/Windows which you have placed on the same form.
So if you are in luck below code in should be able to move you to the Window you are interested in
driver.SwitchTo().Window(driver.WindowHandles.Last());
See if it works. If it doesn't then your only other workaround would be to change the order of Adding ChromiumWebBrowser and that should reverse the window it works on.
Below are some important threads that you should read from top to bottom. Very relevant to your issue/request
https://code.google.com/archive/p/chromiumembedded/issues/421
https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp/issues/1076

using C# and UI Automation to grab contents of unknown control-type

In the image below there is an area, which has an unknown (custom) class. That's not a Grid or a Table.
I need to be able:
to select Rows in this area
to grab a Value from each cell
The problem is since that's not a common type element - I have no idea how to google this problem or solve it myself. So far the code is following:
Process[] proc = Process.GetProcessesByName("programname");
AutomationElement window = AutomationElement.FromHandle(proc [0].MainWindowHandle);
PropertyCondition xEllist2 = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ClassNameProperty, "CustomListClass", PropertyConditionFlags.IgnoreCase);
AutomationElement targetElement = window.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, xEllist2);
I've already tried to threat this Area as a textbox, as a grid, as a combobox, but nothing solved my problem so far. Does anybody have any advice how to grab data from this area and iterate through rows?
EDIT: sorry I've made a wrong assumption. Actually, the header(column 1, column 2, column 3) and the "lower half" of this area are different control-types!!
Thanks to Wininspector I was able to dig more information regarding these control types:
The header has following properties: HeaderControl 0x056407DC (90441692) Atom: #43288 0xFFFFFFFF (-1)
and the lower half has these: ListControl 0x056408A4 (90441892) Atom: #43288 0x02A6FDA0 (44498336)
The code that I've showed earlier - retrieved the "List" element only, so here is the update:
Process[] proc = Process.GetProcessesByName("programname");
AutomationElement window = AutomationElement.FromHandle(proc [0].MainWindowHandle);
//getting the header
PropertyCondition xEllist3 = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ClassNameProperty, "CustomHeaderClass", PropertyConditionFlags.IgnoreCase);
AutomationElement headerEl = XElAE.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, xEllist3);
//getting the list
PropertyCondition xEllist2 = new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ClassNameProperty, "CustomListClass", PropertyConditionFlags.IgnoreCase);
AutomationElement targetElement = window.FindFirst(TreeScope.Children, xEllist2);
After giving it a further thought I've tried to get all column names:
AutomationElementCollection headerLines = headerEl.FindAll(TreeScope.Children, new PropertyCondition(AutomationElement.ControlTypeProperty, ControlType.HeaderItem));
string headertest = headerLines[0].GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElement.NameProperty) as string;
textBox2.AppendText("Header 1: " + headertest + Environment.NewLine);
Unfortunately in debug mode element count in "headerLines" is 0 so the program throws an error.
Edit 2: Thanks to the answer below - I've installed Unmanaged UI Automation, which holds better possibilities than the default UIA. http://uiacomwrapper.codeplex.com/
How do you use the legacy pattern to grab data from unknown control-type?
if((bool)datagrid.GetCurrentPropertyValue(AutomationElementIdentifiers.IsLegacyIAccessiblePatternAvailableProperty))
{
var pattern = ((LegacyIAccessiblePattern)datagrid.GetCurrentPattern(LegacyIAccessiblePattern.Pattern));
var state = pattern.Current.State;
}
Edit 3. IUIAutoamtion approach (non-working as of now)
_automation = new CUIAutomation();
cacheRequest = _automation.CreateCacheRequest();
cacheRequest.AddPattern(UiaConstants.UIA_LegacyIAccessiblePatternId);
cacheRequest.AddProperty(UiaConstants.UIA_LegacyIAccessibleNamePropertyId);
cacheRequest.TreeFilter = _automation.ContentViewCondition;
trueCondition = _automation.CreateTrueCondition();
Process[] ps = Process.GetProcessesByName("program");
IntPtr hwnd = ps[0].MainWindowHandle;
IUIAutomationElement elementMailAppWindow = _automation.ElementFromHandle(hwnd);
List<IntPtr> ls = new List<IntPtr>();
ls = GetChildWindows(hwnd);
foreach (var child in ls)
{
IUIAutomationElement iuiae = _automation.ElementFromHandle(child);
if (iuiae.CurrentClassName == "CustomListClass")
{
var outerArayOfStuff = iuiae.FindAllBuildCache(interop.UIAutomationCore.TreeScope.TreeScope_Children, trueCondition, cacheRequest.Clone());
var outerArayOfStuff2 = iuiae.FindAll(interop.UIAutomationCore.TreeScope.TreeScope_Children, trueCondition);
var countOuter = outerArayOfStuff.Length;
var countOuter2 = outerArayOfStuff2.Length;
var uiAutomationElement = outerArayOfStuff.GetElement(0); // error
var uiAutomationElement2 = outerArayOfStuff2.GetElement(0); // error
//...
//I've erased what's followed next because the code isn't working even now..
}
}
The code was implemented thanks to this issue:
Read cell Items from data grid in SysListView32 of another application using C#
As the result:
countOuter and countOuter2 lengths = 0
impossible to select elements (rows from list)
impossible to get ANY value
nothing is working

You might want to try using the core UI automation classes. It requires that you import the dll to use it in C#. Add this to your pre-build event (or do it just once, etc):
"%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\tlbimp.exe" %windir%\system32\UIAutomationCore.dll /out:..\interop.UIAutomationCore.dll"
You can then use the IUIAutomationLegacyIAccessiblePattern.
Get the constants that you need for the calls from:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Include\UIAutomationClient.h
I am able to read Infragistics Ultragrids this way.
If that is too painful, try using MSAA. I used this project as a starting point with MSAA before converting to all UIA Core: MSSA Sample Code
----- Edited on 6/25/12 ------
I would definitely say that finding the proper 'identifiers' is the most painful part of using the MS UIAutomation stuff. What has helped me very much is to create a simple form application that I can use as 'location recorder'. Essentially, all you need are two things:
a way to hold focus even when you are off of your form's window Holding focus
a call to ElementFromPoint() using the x,y coordinates of where the mouse is. There is an implementation of this in the CUIAutomation class.
I use the CTRL button to tell my app to grab the mouse coordinates (System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Position). I then get the element from the point and recursively get the element's parent until I reach the the desktop.
var desktop = auto.GetRootElement();
var walker = GetRawTreeWalker();
while (true)
{
element = walker.GetParentElement(element);
if (auto.CompareElements(desktop, element) == 1){ break;}
}
----- edit on 6/26/12 -----
Once you can recursively find automation identifiers and/or names, you can rather easily modify the code here: http://blog.functionalfun.net/2009/06/introduction-to-ui-automation-with.html to be used with the Core UI Automation classes. This will allow you to build up a string as you recurse which can be used to identify a control nested in an application with an XPath style syntax.