How to control toolbar location in IE addon (BHO)

Question

I'm trying to develop an Internet Explorer 7 addon using "Browser Helper Objects" (BHO). The goal is to have a standard IE toolbar with some buttons and one custom control. I would like to develop it in .NET

I started from the baseline sample here. This works fine but...

• How to control where in the browser the toolbar will show? Currently it just shows on the menu line.
• How to let the user move it like other toolbars. Most other toolbars (built in and addons) have a dashed separator where you can grab and move them.

If there is a better way altogether to develop this (like the FireFox JS addons) I would like to know about it too.

Answer 1

If you are using the baseline toolbar from the link you provided, you may find this article useful. It addresses some of the shortcomings of the toolbar implementation in the original article, including how to move the toolbar (look toward the bottom of the article).

And, as far as I know there isn't a better way to to create a IE add-on in C#/.NET, although I wish there was.