We do a lot of UI automation for testing. I have played with AutoIt quite a but I found it pretty difficult to get scripts to run reliably on different machines. It's get for one offs though. It wouldn't hurt if you could use it as a library from C# code. Or is that possible? The built in language is not that great.
Have a look at https://github.com/MerlijnWajer/Simba/. It uses uses a dialect of Object Pascal for scripting and some core functions are available in a library.
There are other projects which attempt to do similar things but I sincerely believe Simba is the best program for desktop automation to date.
Don't confuse "lack of activity" with "broken." The program is considered complete. I recently moved everything to FPC 3.0, see https://github.com/MerlijnWajer/Simba/tree/fpc-3.0. The other work going on is language features for the scripting engine.
I don't confuse these things. I just stated that there isn't much activity. But thanks to your answer I took a second look. My problem was that the first impression of the documentation site wasn't/isn't that good IMO. I skimmed the first (quite a few) pages of the documentation and didn't find anything that gave me a first impression what this program/language looks like. You know some kind of small (or not so small) sample code. Then I skipped to the "Tutorial" section which consists of empty pages. Discouraged by that I missed the much better "Scripting Reference" section. So I suggest to at least remove the empty Tutorial section until there is actual content and/or simply link to the examples in the repository
We were considering moving the documentation to GitHub so people were more likely to contribute. There is a function viewer and many of the functions are documented in the source. The autogeneration was abandoned before it was set up because the program does what it was built to do.
Part of it is you need to have some idea what you want to do with the program before you start. Most of the tutorials exist on villavu.com's forums with the goal of automating gameplay.
I have looked at that but it needs Win10 and doesn't do WPF. Right now we a mix between Ranorex, UI Automation and Selenium. They all have their strengths and often one library can support certain elements that others can't.
