If somebody may knows a blog posting with a basic example, that would help a lot.
Google search gives me mostly links to add-in-express.com.
tia
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A:
You can check this url:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/dotnetbandobjects.aspx
it deals with making an extension for Windows Explorer but I know that for IE it works very similar.
It is the library that for example qttabbar uses:
(as I say, it can be adapted to IE).
netadictos
2008-12-09 09:31:53
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A:
Short answer, don't. Just don't.
Details are at Create a shell extension ...
since IE and Explorer are the same component with a different skin, you will run into the same kind of troubles.
Johan Buret
2008-12-09 09:38:33
Yep, if there are at least 2 extensions targeting different versions of .NET, one of them is gonna win, the other one lose, because only one version of CLR can be loaded into IE process.
liggett78
2008-12-09 09:44:49
thx, that saved me much time and nerves :)
marc.d
2008-12-09 09:48:45
On the second thought: the reason for "don't write" is that the host process is not expecting CLR to be injected. I don't know whether IE already loads CLR by himself, because of all this xbap stuff etc...
liggett78
2008-12-09 09:59:19
Already loaded CLR would also eliminate race conditions, since the incompatible extension will just not load.
liggett78
2008-12-09 10:02:43
There is always the possibility to write the injected part of extension in C++ and spawn a new .NET process to do the work. This of course depends on the nature of the extension and the "work".
liggett78
2008-12-09 10:03:24