How To Write a Plug-In for IE

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

See http://www.enhanceie.com/ie/dev.asp for my favorite resources on this topic.