Open source UI Automation testing using White framework

Most organizations encourage open source tools to implement automation testing of their products/softwares, and it indirectly encourages testers/programmers to expose more into difference technologies to find best automation tool and should be freely available, so here is what I found a very tiny yet powerful open source automation testing framework to automate the testing process, called White framework.
Hope this may be useful!!!

All you need is -
1) Visual Studio express edition (Completely free).
2) Knowledge in C#.
3) TestStack.White framework dlls.
4) UI automation verifier which we call object spy as testers. 
And at last but not the least - some web links/ forums to get the idea about programming.


Visual Studio Express Edition - 
Microsoft provides it as free edition to create windows forms and for writing class libraries and can download the same from HERE.

Knowledge in C# - 
Some of the web links that I follow frequently are -
http://www.dotnetperls.com/

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/System.Windows.Forms.aspx

http://stackoverflow.com/

TestStack.White framework dlls - 

• Once Visual Studio is installed, Open a new project as "Windows Forms Application" (Enter project Name, location - optional) and then,
• From the Visual studio menu bar, follow this 

           

          

 

• Once the install done, we will get the white framework dlls under the current visual studio project folder, e.g - C:\Users\\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\WindowsFormsApplication1\packages\
• Now from File menu -> Add -> new Project and select class library (change name and lcoation - optional), this is where we write our functions or code to automate.
• make sure we have added all the required dlls as reference to the class library from the solution explorer of visual studio, if not - do the following -                                                                               On the solution explorer - > click on the class library and add the dlls to the references by browsing proper location of package on the local drive.
• dlls you may need initially - TestStack.White.dll and Castle.Core.dll.

UI automation verifier -
The UI spy can be downloaded from HERE.

All the best!!!