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There is a new sample with the name HtmlEvents on the http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SpicIEContrib page. This sample demonstrates how your managed Plug-In code can register on Html events for specific Html elements. When the registered event is fired Read More...

After you have written a useful plug-in it comes the time when you have to deploy the plug-in on other computers But there may be some pitfalls during the deployment. First there is an “Install.bat” in your project which can be used for the plug-in registration. Read More...

The SpicIE framework uses the .NET System.Diagnostics.TraceSource class to output a lot of information during the runtime. During the development and debug process these messages could be really helpful to understand how the plugin works. But there are Read More...

Sometimes I get a debug start message “A project with an Output Type of Class Library cannot be started directly.”  while developing SpicIE based Internet Explorer plug-ins. It seems that the Visual Studio development environment sometimes forgets Read More...

Plug-in development is not easy because always your code runs inside Internet Explorer. Sometimes the code behaves different in Visual Studio debugger and in undebugged Internet Explorer environment. I try to list some of my best practices of SpicIE plug-in Read More...

Actually I have found a new interesting project published on code.msdn.microsoft.com. The project is called SpicIE = Simple Plug-In Creator for Internet Explorer. I have downloaded the project from http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/SpicIE and installed it Read More...