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Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 8:49 AM by jeffdav
Readers-- I'm leaving MSFT for other opportunities. As such, this will be my last post. Thanks for reading! I hope you will all continue to read the IE Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie Read More...
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on CComQIPtr

Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:21 PM by jeffdav
You're writing some code that uses COM. Do you use SmartPointers or not use SmartPointers? Debate on this topic flares up now and then. The trick to answering it is to seperate the technical facts from stubbornly held beliefs. Like any technology, there Read More...
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why doesn't the favicon for my site appear in IE7?

Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:03 PM by jeffdav
Today I have a mini-FAQ on Favicons. Q: How do I make a favicon appear for my site in IE7? A: There are two ways. The first is to put a file in the root of your domain called favicon.ico. The second is to use a <link> tag with the rel="shortcut Read More...
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msdn blogging, ie7 and the future

Posted Saturday, January 06, 2007 2:20 PM by jeffdav
My posting rate has declined somewhat since we shipped IE7. It seems posts come in bursts. I have a theory for this. At the beginning of a product cycle we are focused on planning, architecting, and implementing. There is not much to talk about, since Read More...
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pop-up blocker and ActiveX controls, part three: creating a user initiated action

Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:19 PM by jeffdav
Note: This is part three in a series of posts explaining how ActiveX controls and the IE Pop-up Blocker should interact. The first post is here . If you are a user (and not an ActiveX control developer), and have found this post in an attempt to track Read More...
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pop-up blocker and ActiveX controls, part two: HlinkSimpleNavigateToMoniker()

Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 3:00 PM by jeffdav
Note : This is part two in a series of posts explaining how ActiveX controls and the IE Pop-up Blocker should interact. The first post is here . If you are a user (and not an ActiveX control developer), and have found this post in an attempt to track Read More...
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pop-up blocker and ActiveX controls, part one: IWebBrowser::Navigate(), IWebBrowser::Navigate2()

Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 2:42 PM by jeffdav
As I mentioned previously , one reason users may continue to experience unwanted pop-up windows while browsing is creative use of ActiveX controls that provide methods that allow web sites to open new browser windows. This series of posts will provide Read More...
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IOleCommandTarget, CGID_MSHTML and ActiveX controls

Posted Friday, April 21, 2006 2:02 PM by jeffdav
If you write an application that hosts the WebBrowser Control , and you want the control to do something, you can send commands to mshtml via the IOleCommandTarget interface. However, if you are an ActiveX control and you want to send CGID_MSHTML commands, Read More...
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on getting IOleCommandTarget wrong (and a bit in the middle about ActiveX controls)

Posted Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:32 AM by jeffdav
IOleCommandTarget is very useful. It provides a generic way of sending commands between objects. IE makes extensive use of IOleCommandTarget , both publically and internally. And, like IUnknown , people frequently get it wrong. Each command is composed Read More...
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on IObjectWithSite, IOleObject and ActiveX controls

Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 9:45 AM by jeffdav
ActiveX® controls frequently need to communicate with their containing object. For example, a control may want to QueryService for the cached InternetSecurityManager object to decide whether or not to take a particular action . Controls can obtain a pointer Read More...
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Debugging and the C++ Renaming Problem

Posted Monday, April 18, 2005 12:20 PM by jeffdav
(Today we have another installment of Jeff's Real Microsoft Debugging Stories.) Recently a minor piece of an IE feature I own stopped working in our latest internal builds, so I debugged it. Issues where something that has worked for a long time and suddenly Read More...
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Index.dat Part IV - It's doing what on the UI thread?

Posted Thursday, December 02, 2004 11:19 AM by jeffdav
Whenever someone kills an application because it is hung we get a little report with the stack and some other information (if the user chooses to send it). About 1% of the reports for IE are from users who have killed IE (or the Internet Control Panel) Read More...
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Index.dat Part III - How do I delete index.dat?

Posted Friday, November 19, 2004 1:00 PM by jeffdav
These data files are used by Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer. You cannot delete a file that is in use by a running program. If you feel you need to delete the file, you will have to shutdown all instances of Explorer and IE. This includes applications Read More...
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Index.dat: Part II - What are they used for?

Posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 4:06 PM by jeffdav
As I mentioned in Part I , index.dat files are used by various features of IE to keep track of URLs and associated information about URLs. The two primary consumers of these files are the Temporary Internet Files folder (TIF) and History. TIF uses an Read More...
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Index.dat: Part I - What is index.dat?

Posted Thursday, November 18, 2004 3:50 PM by jeffdav
If you go poking around in [d]:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Local Settings\History\, for example, you will find several index.dat files laying around. (Note: several of the directories that I listed in the path are hidden directories.) We (the Read More...
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