O Selenium I Love Thee

//When I want to do a mouse gesture, I can build it as such      

            var builder = new OpenQA.Selenium.Interactions.Actions(Driver);
            IAction signInButton = builder.MoveToElement(Driver.FindElement(By. (SignInButton)))
                .Click(Driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector(SignInButton)))
                .Release(Driver.FindElement(By.CssSelector(SignInButton)))
                .Build();

            signInButton.Perform();

//If I cannot click on an object, even when it is enabled       
       if (Assert.IsTrue(SignInButton.Enabled))
                {SignInButton.Click();}
      else { Thread.Sleep(100);
              SignInButton.Click();}

// I should do a submit.
       if (Assert.IsTrue(SignInButton.Enabled))
                {SignInButton.Submit();}
      else { Thread.Sleep(100);
              SignInButton.Submit();}

//make driver wait by default for async controls. note that controls must have a specified id. This maybe could be changed to take an IWebElement type
        public void waitForItemById(string id)
        {
            WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(Driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));
            IWebElement myDynamicElement = wait.Until<IWebElement>((d) =>
                                                                       {
                                                                           return d.FindElement(By.Id(id));
                                                                       });
        }
//nice switch to allow you to dynamically allocate the browser specific driver
        public string BrowserType = "FF";
        private string _iEDriverPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "\\..\\..\\..\\..\\..\\Libraries\\IEDriverServer_x64\\";

        public void GetDriver()
        {
            switch (BrowserType)
            {
                case "FF":
                    FirefoxProfile fp = new FirefoxProfile();
                    fp.EnableNativeEvents = false;
                    Driver = new FirefoxDriver();
                    break;
                case "IE":
                    var options = new InternetExplorerOptions();
                    options.IntroduceInstabilityByIgnoringProtectedModeSettings = true;
                    Driver = new InternetExplorerDriver(_iEDriverPath, options);
                    break;
               case "CH":
                    Driver = new ChromeDriver();
                    break;
            }
//Nice XPath to find one of several values on a page where the indistinct value you want is nested after a distinct element.
//td[text() = 'Product 1']/following-sibling::td/a[

text() = 'View Download']

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