Creating custom Explorer bars, IE commands.
Writing IE add-on in C#, VB.NET, C++.

Add-in Express™
for Internet Explorer® and Microsoft® .net

Internet Explorer commands based on Add-in Express

Add-in Express for Internet Explorer eliminates the necessity to realize each command as a separate COM object and register it in a separate registry key. Add-in Express integrates all your commands in one collection (the Commands collection of the IE Module) with its visual designer. Sure, Add-in Express contains command events and registers all commands itself.

Designer of the Commands collection

Internet Explorer context menus in Add-in Express

Just like it does for Internet Explorer commands, Add-in Express provides the same way for extending IE pop-up menus. Instead of realizing and registering each item of the context menu as a COM object, you use the ContextMenu collection of the IE Module. See how to create an Internet Explorer context menu item.

Context menu designer

Custom Internet Explorer toolbars with Add-in Express

In Add-in Express, custom IE toolbars are implemented as .NET user controls that realize all necessary functionality. Just add an IE toolbar to your project (via the Add | New Item dialog box), place any controls on the toolbar and add the new toolbar to the Toolbars collection of your IE Module. See how to develop a custom IE toolbar.

Creating an IE toolbar using a UserControl

Custom Explorer bars

Custom Explorer bars are realized by .NET user controls that you can add to your project via the Add | New Item dialog box of your project. Note, you should register your bar in the Bars collection of the IE Module. See how to build an Explorer bar.

Designing an Explorer bar in Add-in Express

Keyboard shortcuts

Internet Explorer doesn't provide a way to create new keyboard shortcuts. However, Add-in Express allows you to do this through a special component that you can add to your IE Module (right-click on your module). The component is an analog of the KeyboardShortcuts component of the "main" Add-in Express.

Intercepting keyboard shortcuts in IE

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