Program Internet Explorer add-on, toolbar, explorer bar, popup menu

Building Internet Explorer add-on, toolbar, bar, context menu in VB.NET, C#

Add-in Express for Internet Explorer

Based on the Internet Explorer extensibility, Add-in Express provides the easiest and most effective way for programming Internet Explorer add-ons (32-bit add-ons for IE 6; 32- and 64-bit add-ons for IE 7 and IE 8). Add-in Express gives you an integrated solution with a strong, easy-to-understand architecture and a lucid interaction model with Internet Explorer objects.  With Add-in Express you don't need to follow a complicated IE SDK way with separate ActiveX-es, script files and registry keys. You use visual designers and components to customize the Internet Explorer GUI with custom menu items, toolbar buttons, context menus, toolbars, side-bars and keyboard shortcuts.

With Add-in Express you can:

• Build powerful Internet Explorer add-ons with a couple of clicks.
• Develop IE browser helper objects.
• Add custom commands to the built-in IE menu bar and toolbar.
• Add custom items to any built-in Internet Explorer context menus /  pop-up menus.
• Create custom toolbars and populate them with any .NET controls and user control components.
• Develop custom vertical or horizontal Explorer bars (like the Favorites or History bars).
• Extend the IE built-in toolbar with new buttons.
• Extend the IE built-in menu bar with new items.
• Add new keyboard shortcuts.
• Access Internet Explorer objects and their events.

Add-in Express directly supports Visual Basic .NET (VB .NET), Visual C#, and C++, and Delphi Prism in Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010.

Key benefits for easy IE add-on development

• IE SDK based programming model. Add-in Express programming model and run-time code are based on the Internet Explorer SDK and provide the most effective way to extend the IE GUI, access Internet Explorer objects and handle their events.
• Component-centric model for programming IE add-ons. You use visual designers and components to customize the Internet Explorer menu, toolbar or side-bars, and to access Internet Explorer objects and their events.
• One integrated solution. Add-in Express integrates all Internet Explorer extensibility features in one solution, so that you needn't follow a complicated IE SDK way with separate ActiveX-es, script files and registry keys.
• True RAD development. Add-in Express is completely based on the true RAD paradigm and enables you to reduce the time you spend on COM interfaces, IE-related registry entries and IE add-on deployment. You write applied code only, Add-in Express implements everything else.

More about Add-in Express for Internet Explorer:

Add-in Express for Internet Explorer home page
Creating IE browser helper objects (BHO)
Sample IE add-on (custom toolbar, Explorer bar, context menu) step-by-step