add-on

How do I write a Firefox Addon?

What are some resources for getting started writing a Firefox Addon? Is there an API guide somewhere? Is there a getting started tutorial somewhere? Is there a developer discussion board somewhere? ...

Firefox add-ons

What Firefox add-ons do you use that are useful for programmers? ...

Is there a Firefox 3 addon similar to View Source Chart?

Before I upgraded to Firefox 3 I used to constantly use the View Source Chart Firefox Addon which shows the source HTML in a very organized, graphical form. Unfortunately, this addon is only for Firefox 2 and the beta version for Firefox 3 now costs $10 on the author's site. Anyone know of a similar addon that works for Firefox 3? (of...

Tool to reformat xml-comments (Visual Studio 2008)

Hi there, does anyone know of a macro or add-on for VS 2008 which reformats xml-comments? There has been this really smart CommentReflower for the older version of VS, but I couldn't find a release supporting VS 2008. Any ideas? Thanks in advance! Matthias ...

Tasklist replacement for Visual Studio

I would like to use the task-list in Visual Studio but it really lacks almost any useful feature a task-list should provide. So I use Todo-List externally, to keep track of the things I need to get done. Would be nice to have it all in one place. So does anyone know of a cool replacement Add-On for the tasklist in Visual Studio? Thanks...

How did you choose your Visual Studio productivity addon?

I'm evaluating Visual Studio productivity addons for my development team, which includes some folks who are very new to C# and some folks who are very experienced. We don't use VB.NET. I personally like ReSharper, but before I suggest something that I personally like, I would like some opinions for and reasoning behind using a different ...

Reflection.Net: how to load dependencies?

I try to add an addons system to my Windows.Net application using Reflection; but it fails when there is addon with dependencie. Addon class have to implement an interface 'IAddon' and to have an empty constructor. Main program load the addon using Reflection: Assembly assembly = Assembly.LoadFile(@"C:\Temp\TestAddon\Addon.dll"); Type ...

How do you package and self host your Firefox extensions?

I'm developing a site-specific Firefox extension. The official hosting/updating mechanism at addons.mozilla.org forces my users to login to download my plugin (until it get approved for public status), which isn't good for me, especially as my plugin is unlikely to be deemed useful to the web at large and will be stuck in the sandbox for...

How do I create a IE Add-On in .NET?

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 ...

Browser Add-On/Extension and Browser Form data

Can someone point me to an article (or discuss here) that explains how an add-on/extension can read what a user has completed in a form in a browser so you can present data to them based on the search parameters? An example would be the Sidestep extension that opens a sidebar when a user searches on an airline/travel site and presents t...

Visual Studio add-on gallery?

i'm hoping to find some add-ons for Visual Studio to address some specific usability issues. Is there a Visual Studio addons gallery that contains a huge dumping ground of addons that every person, company, yahoo and hick have created? Kind of like Vista Sidebar Gadget gallery, but for addons. Kind of like CodePlex, but for addons. Is...

How the best methodology to create an .NET client application supporting plugins?

I found the .net plugin architeture very complex to use as plugin platform. I think that an plugin interface needs be simple to 3rd coders develop with. Do you know/use/etc some plugin techinique more simple and effective? To be more exact, let's imagine that we will develop a text editor like notepad, that needs (by example) plugins fo...

Looking for a nice add on to VS 2008

Hello all, I am looking for a nice add on to VS 2008 that will let me select all of my private fields and automatically turn them into public properties. Does a tool like this exist? Thanks ...

IE Add-on to Bypass Print Dialog - Where to Start?

I need to write an add-on/plugin for IE 6/7 that will intercept any Javascript print() call and automatically print the page on the default printer, bypassing the standard print dialog. Unfortunately I know very little about Windows or IE programming (I come from the land of Cocoa), so I'm at a bit of a loss as to where to begin. I think...

Add ons in a compiled language

We are developing a CMS in ASP.NET. We love the idea of add-ons (like in Wordpress, where any developer can add a menu button or a widget) and would like to enable developers to do the same with our system. However I think that the fact that C# is a compiled language is an obstacle in the way of add-ons. Am I right? Or is there a w...

Statistics & other add-on tools for Planet blog aggregator software

Hi, The Planet software is often used for particular topics or large projects, to collect blogs that post on a particular theme. http://www.planetplanet.org/ I think there are lots of interesting add-ons that could be done for it but so far I haven't seen any. Does anyone know any? (Because of the name, it's kinda hard to search for......

php function for collating external variables into a single object regardless of GET or POST

Question: I recall reviewing someone else's PHP code once and he had a function or class method that rolled all GET and POST variables into a single plain old object that could then be passed around. If the same name-value pair appeared in both GET and POST, POST would win. Is there a well-coded PHP add-on out there of any sort that doe...

Connect to .Net software program and interact

I'm not sure how to come across to ask this, but I'm trying to figure out if there is possibly a way by which I can access a running process written purely in .Net and interact with its memory space and active objects. I do Add-in development for 2 point-of-sale packages, and am trying to figure this out for analysis of data entry in an...

How to check with Javascript if a Firefox 3 Add-on / Extension is installed

Actually this question is based on a Blog Entry, which discusses the topic for FF2. But how does this work with FireFox 3? I know that there must be a workaround, because recently I visited a site saying: "Please disable AdBlock+ before entering this site" :( ...

Hover text at mouse created from firefox toolbar add-on

Hi all, I'm creating a firefox add-on, and I have a situation where if someone clicks on a specific item in my toolbarbutton menupopup, I want to display some text to appear beside the mouse for a couple seconds. I don't mean mouseover text, because when they click on the item, the I close the menupopup. I mean something like what's s...