Selenium C# 4.7.0 throws System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception when tried to use the chromedriver

Question

public class Tests
{
    [Test]
    public void Test1()
    {
        var d = new ChromeDriver();
        d.Navigate().GoToUrl("https://www.google.com");
        TestContext.WriteLine("Opened successfully");
    }
}

Tried replacing the chrome with Firefox / Safari / Edge it works perfectly fine. But for Chrome alone it throws

Console output:

System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception : An error occurred trying to start process '/usr/local/bin/chromedriver' with working directory '/Users/testuser/Documents/SeleniumCSharp/DemoSelenium/DemoSelenium/bin/Debug/net6.0'. No such file or directory

Result message:

System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception : An error occurred trying to start process '/usr/local/bin/chromedriver' with working directory '/Users/testuser/Documents/SeleniumCSharp/DemoSelenium/DemoSelenium/bin/Debug/net6.0'. No such file or directory

Answer 1

You need to place chromedriver.exe where Selenium can "find" it. One way is to place chromedriver.exe in the same folder as your calling program. Another way is to call a ChromeDriver constructor which takes the path to chromedriver.exe as a parameter.