How to use SSO login while automating your application using selenium C#

We may come across several situations in which we need to use our SSO access to login to an application.

But while launching a new browser using we will be always getting a fresh profile which does to consider our SSO.

So we need to create a browser profile which uses our existing user data and also the extensions which are needed to login with SSO such as Windows 10 Chrome extension

The following error will be shown on such issues

On Chromium/Edge:

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On Chrome:

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This application contains sensitive information and can only be accessed from:

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In the case of chrome, we need to install the windows 10 extension also at first.

For this extension to work we may have to allow extensions also while creating a browser profile.

Now let's see how this works when we are using selenium C# to automate this process:

string currentUser = System.Environment.UserName;

ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();

chromeOptions .AddArguments(@"user-data-dir=C:\Users\" + currentUser + @"\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data");

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string currentUser = System.Environment.UserName; //read the Logged in user name
ChromeOptions chroptions = new ChromeOptions();
chroptions.AddArguments("--noerrdialogs");
chroptions.AddArguments(@"user-data-dir=C:\Users\" + currentUser + @"\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data");

chroptions.AddAdditionalCapability("useAutomationExtension", false);
chroptions.AddArgument("no-sandbox");
driver = new ChromeDriver(Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location), chroptions, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(3));