Is programmers a better place for this question?
Am a PHP developer. Want to develop some addons for IE for personal use. Which language should I learn?
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A:
I think you are asking the wrong questions. I would personally start off with finding a few examples of Toolbars and then use the Language the examples are written in.
I expect that tool bars have to implement COM interfaces; this can be done in C++, C# or VB.NET, or VB6 (and lots of 3rd party options).
VB6 is unlikely to work as it only supports apartment threaded COM.
As there are (or used to be) issues with having more than one version of the .net framework loaded into the same process and another toolbar vendor may use a different version of the .net framework you may get issues if you try to use C# or VB.NET.
This leave C++(VC++) with ATL as being the most likely option.
Ian Ringrose
2010-10-22 15:12:10
+1 And is C++ the easiest route? The toolbar is strictly for fun. for tinkering around with forms filling..
abel
2010-10-22 15:28:30
@abel, I would say that the easiest route is to start with a sample then change it to do what you want it to do.
Ian Ringrose
2010-10-22 15:33:59
Much appreciated.
abel
2010-10-22 15:37:16