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Weather, exchange rates and other feeds

I am building a real estates website, I want to include some details on the homepage about the current weather, temperature, humidity, etc. I may also want to include some exchange rates. It all should be current and up-to-date, I know there are plugins or add-ons I can use which requires me zero-coding. I just don't know what to use. ...

Never-ending https loop

I'm using Noscript and found out that it has a function to force sites to use a secure connection, I tried forcing a few sites but when I try going to any of them I get a blank tab and my status bar acts like it's constantly reloading. I had a Greasemonkey script that forced secure connection before I found the Noscript option but the Gr...

Visual Studio 2008 Database Addon

I am currently trying out visual studio to access sql server databases instead of using SQL Server Management Studio. It was a good surprise how easy it is to setup and use a connection do a database and for the moment it has a positive impact on my productivity. My question is: Is there an addon (or something i can do) to enable intel...

Does Visual Studio 2010 have backward compatibility with visual studio 2008's addins ?

I have some really great addins in Visual Studio 2008 that I don't want to lose, but I've heard that Visual Studio 2010 will use MEF. Does it mean that I can say goodbye to my dancing banana ? ...

accessing cookies, hopefully in javascript

I am working on a Firefox add-on that will allow users (all of whom are part of a specific group; this add-on is very limited in audience scope) to see the status of their authentication cookie from the status bar. We all have to authenticate to access work-related sites, but we get no warning when the cookie expires, so this causes anno...

How do I develop an addon for Safari?

I want some personally developed JavaScript code to execute whenever I load a page in Safari. Seems like addblock for Safari does this. Anyone know how to do this? Safari is not extensible. There's no addon framework for it. But yet there's adblock and verious other addons available for it, although Apple's Webkit and Safari developers ...

Creating SQL Server 2008 Add-Ons: current equivalent of sqlwb.exe

I'm trying to create a simple Add-On for SQL Server 2008; it is simply going to pass a parameter from SQL 2008 to a console application. Although Add-Ons are not specifically supported, according to these articles (1, 2), it is possible in 2005 and I'm assuming also in 2008. However, I've fallen almost at the first hurdle; I can't seem ...

What are the pros and cons of various ways of analyzing websites?

I'd like to write some code which looks at a website and its assets and creates some stats and a report. Assets would include images. I'd like to be able to trace links, or at least try to identify menus on the page. I'd also like to take a guess at what CMS created the site, based on class names and such. I'm going to assume that the s...

Firefox plugin that ask for some input at startup

I would like to know how to implement a dialog that show up when you first start Firefox to ask the user to enter some input. This input will be stored somewhere temporarily, and should be used later on by the plugin when required. I have full understand of how to implement firefox plugin (this includes understanding of XUL and Javascrip...

Programmatically disable all IE7 add-ons EXCEPT one

Is there a way to do the following 1) disable all add-ons for an IE session (like the -extoff option) 2) then enable 1 (or some) add-ons only I want to do this from a .cmd file Other close but not quite options welcomed. Thanks! ...

Deployment of a Browser Helper Object

hi all, I wrote an IE Plugin with the .NET SpicIE Framework. During development I tested it with the following commands: "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\regasm" "plugin.dll" "C:\Programme\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\gacutil" /if "plugin.dll" Now I want to create an MSI Installer with the Microsoft WiX Toolkit. But...

To analyse CPU consumption of Firefox addons in SO

I currently analyse inefficient Firefox addons by uninstalling them and seeing empirically in a long run whether the addon was a problem or not. However, this way of finding the inefficient addons is very time-consuming. I would like to know exact numerical ways to see the CPU consumption for each addon independently in Firefox the C...

Developing a Firefox addon that turns a file's URI into its filename when saving it

I've read some documentation and tutorials about developing Firefox Addons. But never found how to do this. I would like to make an addon that when you try to save a file (via left-click or right-click/save as) it automatically sets the to-be-created-file's name to be the same as the original file's URI. (but with some changes, like mak...

Skype Addon in C#

I would like to try and build a Skype Addon. Is there an API? Any point in the right direction would be helpful. I would like to use C# to accomplish the task. Thanks! ...

Which is the best location to keep program configuration file in WINDOWS?

My program requires some configuration details to be kept in a .ini file. This program also installs extensions to IE and firefox and i want to read these .ini file from these extensions also. If I kept .ini in "...AppData/Roaming..." the IE extension in protected mode won't be able to read/write. As far as I know only AppData/LocalLow c...

PHP function-enhancement libraries intended for plain-vanilla php

Background: There are numerous PHP addons out there that have some nice ideas, but they represent a significant investment in either time or resources. For example there are frameworks like codeignighter or Smarty templating. Although some find these useful, and others find them not-so-much, there is no debating that there are a lot of ...

How to develop add-on on firefox

Possible Duplicate: How do I write a Firefox Addon? Any body knows how to develop an add-on on firefox? ...

how to develop internet explorer add-on

Can we create add-on for IE? If yes where can i find required resources/docs? ...

when i unload my page embed my activex. activex don't destroy

My MFC ActiveX is simple active. I make it by MFC ActiveX template of Visual Studio 2008. i just add call show message dialog when ActiveX destroy to test. CmfcActivexCtrl::~CmfcActivexCtrl() { AfxMessageBox(_T("destroy")); } I open my page embed this ActiveX. After I navigate to other address. if i disable skype-addon then mes...

How to install a plugin or add-on with WiX

Hello, I need to install plugins (or add-ons) to an application we write. I user WiX for the installer of the application. A plugin is, in my mind, an optional part of the application. It needs to integrate into the file-system structure of the application, but it can also be added later, even by someone who does not have control over th...