Multiple tabs in IE with one instance of the toolbar

Question

I have developed a toolbar for Internet Explorer in C# to send and receive URLs from an external application. It ran great on previous versions of IE, but I wanted to take advantage of tabbed browsing in the new versions, but I've run into a snag there. It seems in IE, each tab counts a separate instance, and therefore a separate instance of my toolbar.

For the life of me, I can't find a way to have a single instance appear across every tab in a single IE window. All I can figure to do is register as a com object to the ROT and have each instance communicate and mirror all the others, but that seems needlessly complex. Has anyone found a workaround for this?

Answer 1

I am looking for the same solution as well. I found Add-in Express for Internet Explorer. Here is the link: http://www.add-in-express.com/programming-internet-explorer/. It's supposed to make developing toolbars for IE and MS Office really easy, even dealing with tabs. The downisde is that it costs about $150 which my client will not pay for. Maybe your situation is different and this might be helpful. Hopefully it is.