Custom IE Toolbar with C#?

[Jason Tabert]

Is there a way to create a custom IE toolbar with C# (or anything else in
..NET for that matter)?

I have been looking all day and have had no luck finding a good place to
start. I need to make a toolbar for a research project that does some
things with existing code that we've written. We need to get working on
making the toolbar *do things* but I can't even get started with making a
basic toolbar.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I've read about 10 different
ways of doing things but none of them have either worked or been much help,
and MSDN is confusing me more each time instead of helping...It seems like I
should be able to fire up VS.NET 2003 and click on something simple and get
to work but I certainly haven't found how to do that.

Thanks in advance!

~Jason
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[Trebek]

Jason,

Yes, it is possible but it does require a bit of work. I have written a C#
toolbar (a 'managed' .NET upgrade of my existing ATL toolbar from a few
years ago). Some of things you need to look into are :

1) Writing a base class that derives from System.Windows.Forms.UserControl
and implementing the follwoing interfaces...
- IObjectWithSite
- IDeskBand
- IDockingWindow
- IOleWindow
- IInputObject
2) Handling type conversion from unmanaged to managed types. This can be
tricky cause of disparate differences between the two.

3) You will need to strong name your derived class for gac registration.
This class must reside in the gac.

4) Using regasm to register the types necessary

Unfortunately there is no 'easy' way thru VS to simply do these things for
you, but, for what it's worth, once you have generated this 'base' class
that implements the required COM interfaces, you shouldn't need to ever deal
with it again.

HTH,

Alex

"Jason Tabert" <jr******@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:u8**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Is there a way to create a custom IE toolbar with C# (or anything else in
.NET for that matter)?

I have been looking all day and have had no luck finding a good place to
start. I need to make a toolbar for a research project that does some
things with existing code that we've written. We need to get working on
making the toolbar *do things* but I can't even get started with making a
basic toolbar.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I've read about 10 different
ways of doing things but none of them have either worked or been much help, and MSDN is confusing me more each time instead of helping...It seems like I should be able to fire up VS.NET 2003 and click on something simple and get to work but I certainly haven't found how to do that.

Thanks in advance!

~Jason
--
'***************************************
'* Jason R. Tabert
'* Student, University of Washington, Informatics
'*
'* jr******@u.washington.edu
'* http://www.placelab.org/
'***************************************

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Trebek and Jason,

Most of this has been done already. Check out the article on The Code
Project website titled "Extending Explorer with Band Objects using .NET and
Windows Forms", located at (watch for line wrap):

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dotnetbandobjects.asp

Hope this helps.

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Trebek" <tr****@intheformofaquestion.com> wrote in message
news:3f***********************@nnrp.fuse.net...

Jason,

Yes, it is possible but it does require a bit of work. I have written a C# toolbar (a 'managed' .NET upgrade of my existing ATL toolbar from a few
years ago). Some of things you need to look into are :

1) Writing a base class that derives from System.Windows.Forms.UserControl and implementing the follwoing interfaces...
- IObjectWithSite
- IDeskBand
- IDockingWindow
- IOleWindow
- IInputObject
2) Handling type conversion from unmanaged to managed types. This can be tricky cause of disparate differences between the two.

3) You will need to strong name your derived class for gac registration.
This class must reside in the gac.

4) Using regasm to register the types necessary

Unfortunately there is no 'easy' way thru VS to simply do these things for
you, but, for what it's worth, once you have generated this 'base' class
that implements the required COM interfaces, you shouldn't need to ever deal with it again.

HTH,

Alex

"Jason Tabert" <jr******@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:u8**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Is there a way to create a custom IE toolbar with C# (or anything else in .NET for that matter)?

I have been looking all day and have had no luck finding a good place to
start. I need to make a toolbar for a research project that does some
things with existing code that we've written. We need to get working on
making the toolbar *do things* but I can't even get started with making a basic toolbar.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I've read about 10 different
ways of doing things but none of them have either worked or been much help,

and MSDN is confusing me more each time instead of helping...It seems

like I

should be able to fire up VS.NET 2003 and click on something simple and

get

to work but I certainly haven't found how to do that.

Thanks in advance!

~Jason
--
'***************************************
'* Jason R. Tabert
'* Student, University of Washington, Informatics
'*
'* jr******@u.washington.edu
'* http://www.placelab.org/
'***************************************

[Taylor Monacelli]

What about using Band Objects?
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dotnetbandobjects.asp
I followed the sample HelloWorldBar and that made it quite simple to do what
I wanted.

I used Pavel Zolnikov's Band Object assembly to create a little toolbar
similar to the google toolbar. My toolbar's purpose was pretty simple: when
I click on the toolbar, the current web page is searched for all the href
links and I then store those links to a file. I read the html using
microsoft.mshtml assembly.

Taylor

"Jason Tabert" <jr******@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:u8**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Is there a way to create a custom IE toolbar with C# (or anything else in
.NET for that matter)?

I have been looking all day and have had no luck finding a good place to
start. I need to make a toolbar for a research project that does some
things with existing code that we've written. We need to get working on
making the toolbar *do things* but I can't even get started with making a
basic toolbar.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I've read about 10 different
ways of doing things but none of them have either worked or been much help, and MSDN is confusing me more each time instead of helping...It seems like I should be able to fire up VS.NET 2003 and click on something simple and get to work but I certainly haven't found how to do that.

Thanks in advance!

~Jason
--
'***************************************
'* Jason R. Tabert
'* Student, University of Washington, Informatics
'*
'* jr******@u.washington.edu
'* http://www.placelab.org/
'***************************************

[Adnan]

I placed a textbox on toolbar but i am unable to use BackSpace key in
it
somebody told me to implement IInputObject Interface,

can anyone tell me how can I do it and then use to enable backspace for
the toolbar?

Thanks
-adnan
Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] wrote:

Trebek and Jason,

Most of this has been done already. Check out the article on The Code Project website titled "Extending Explorer with Band Objects using ..NET and Windows Forms", located at (watch for line wrap):

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/dotnetbandobjects.asp

Hope this helps.

--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

"Trebek" <tr****@intheformofaquestion.com> wrote in message
news:3f***********************@nnrp.fuse.net...

Jason,

Yes, it is possible but it does require a bit of work. I have written a

C#

toolbar (a 'managed' .NET upgrade of my existing ATL toolbar from a few years ago). Some of things you need to look into are :

1) Writing a base class that derives from System.Windows.Forms.UserControl

and implementing the follwoing interfaces...
- IObjectWithSite
- IDeskBand
- IDockingWindow
- IOleWindow
- IInputObject
2) Handling type conversion from unmanaged to managed types. This can be

tricky cause of disparate differences between the two.

3) You will need to strong name your derived class for gac

registration. This class must reside in the gac.

4) Using regasm to register the types necessary

Unfortunately there is no 'easy' way thru VS to simply do these things for you, but, for what it's worth, once you have generated this 'base' class that implements the required COM interfaces, you shouldn't need to ever deal

with it again.

HTH,

Alex

"Jason Tabert" <jr******@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:u8**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Is there a way to create a custom IE toolbar with C# (or anything else

in .NET for that matter)?

I have been looking all day and have had no luck finding a good

place to start. I need to make a toolbar for a research project that does some things with existing code that we've written. We need to get working on making the toolbar *do things* but I can't even get started with making

a basic toolbar.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I've read about 10

different ways of doing things but none of them have either worked or been

much help,

and MSDN is confusing me more each time instead of helping...It

seems like

I

should be able to fire up VS.NET 2003 and click on something

simple and get

to work but I certainly haven't found how to do that.

Thanks in advance!

~Jason
--
'***************************************
'* Jason R. Tabert
'* Student, University of Washington, Informatics
'*
'* jr******@u.washington.edu
'* http://www.placelab.org/
'***************************************