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The IE Developer Toolbar is a plugin that can dock or separate from the browser. I understand its much more difficult to do this in IE than in Firefox.

  • How does one create an IE plugin?
  • What languages are available for this task?
  • How can I make a Hello World plugin?
Petr Abdulin
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Here are a few resources that might help you in your quest to create browser helper objects (BHO).

http://petesearch.com/wiki/ (archived)

http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/06/howto_port_firefox_extensions.html

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182554(VS.80).aspx

http://www.codeplex.com/TeamTestPlugins

Edward Samson
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David
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  • try putting a backslash \ before each of the parentheses in the url. – Carl Camera Sep 25 '08 at 14:43
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    http://petesearch.com/wiki/ and http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/06/howto_port_firefox_extensions.html are no longer valid. – Tolle May 27 '09 at 20:26
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See http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/dev.asp for my favorite resources on this topic.

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