.net equivalent of htmlunit?

Question

Does anybody know if there is a .net equivalent of htmlunit or similar library?

I've heard that people have used IKVM to convert the htmlunit library. But I have also heard that the converted code is slow.

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• Support javascript
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• .Net

Answer 1

You can try out the just-released NHtmlUnit (available on NuGet), which is a .NET-wrapper for HtmlUnit. It's not .NET as in "written in a .NET language and compiled to MSIL", but it's converted to .NET with IKVM and we've written a layer of "purified" C# code on top of it so everything looks and behaves like .NET.

Answer 2

You can use Htmlunit from .net with ikvm. I followed the instructions at http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2010/03/30/using-htmlunit-on-net-for-headless-browser-automation/ and it worked for me.

edit: it is slow though. recently I've been using Selenium Server with the .net client

Answer 3

Nothing yet that fulfils all of your requirements.

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