Unable to load MS edge chromium with Selenium

Question

I'm trying to load the msedge chromium. encountering error.

Steps to recreate:

1. Installed mschromium Beta and Dev versions.
2. Installed the Nuget package "Install-Package Selenium.WebDriver -Version 4.0.0-alpha04"
3. placed the msedgedriver.exe in location which I mentioned in the code.

4. still code throwing error.

   public void Test1()
   {
   
   
       // EdgeOptions() requires using OpenQA.Selenium.Edge
       // Construct EdgeOptions with is_legacy = false
       var edgeOptions = new OpenQA.Selenium.Edge.EdgeOptions(false);
       edgeOptions.BinaryLocation = @"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Edge Dev\Application\msedge.exe";
   
       var msedgedriverDir = @"E:\XXXXX\#######\YYYYYY\ZZZZZZ\MSEdgeChromium\bin\Debug";
       var msedgedriverExe = @"msedgedriver.exe";
   
       // Construct EdgeDriverService with is_legacy = false too
       var service = OpenQA.Selenium.Edge.EdgeDriverService.CreateDefaultService(msedgedriverDir, msedgedriverExe, false);
       service.EnableVerboseLogging = true;
   
       var driver = new OpenQA.Selenium.Edge.EdgeDriver(service, edgeOptions);
       Assert.Pass();
   }
   

ErrorDetails: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: 'Could not load file or assembly 'System.Security.Permissions, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51'. The system cannot find the file specified.'

Answer 1

If you added the msedgedriver.exe to your project manually you also need to set the Copy to Output Directory property of the file.

Because non-code files are default not placed in the build directory bin\Debug. Double check the driver is indeed copied to the directory.

Instead of hardcoding the path to the output directory you could try:

var msedgedriverDir = System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);

See: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/53248.visual-studio-copying-files-to-debug-or-release-folder.aspx