Write Firefox Plug-in Using Program?
Nov 25, 2009
I have a VB.NET User Control (compiled in VS 2008 into a Class Library DLL that is COM interop enabled). This is embeded into a HTML page (using its GUID), is driven by Javascript method/property calls and sends feedback back to the HTML page using <script for="id" event="method()> tags. It was developed for (and works great in!) Internet Explorer.
I am now looking at the possibility of porting this VB.NET Class Library DLL to Gecko-based browsers such as firefox 3.5 based on customer demand. I've downloaded the Mozilla development code, but all the examples are in Visual C++ 6.0.
From what I understand from the Mozilla docs, I should be able to register a specific media type against my DLL (installed in the firefoxplugins directory) and, as long as it supports the correct interface/DLL methods, I should be able to use the object tag to embed in the same way as IE.
I don't mind having different web-pages for IE and Firefox but I don't really want to re-write the VB.NET control in Visual C++ and ideally I'd like to use the same code base for both.
I've googled but not found any examples so I'm guessing this is either hard or impossible! :
(1) Has anyone done this and has a hello world style example?
2) How would I code the VB.NET methods/classes so they appear the same as ones built using Visual C++ 6.0[code]...
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Sep 11, 2009
As from the title "internet explore/Firefox plug-in", i want to make a plug-in for internet explore or even Firefox. I want this plug-in to be shown on the toolbar.
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Mar 6, 2010
I'm making a game luncher, and I want other ppl to make plug-ins to start their game. So whats the best way of creating plug-ins? Dlls? And how can I use it?
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Jul 22, 2011
[vb.net] I want to create the program Firefox Optimizer
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Jul 22, 2011
[vb.net] I want to create the program Firefox Optimizer I want to approach. I should start ? For example this program [URL]
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Jan 18, 2011
Is there some Firefox extension that was written in VB.NET / VB6?
Would be nice to have a template for changes.
I have to intercept the Firefox reloading of data (XML data refreshed regularly by some javascript routines).Pretty much as the extension "tamper" does it (url...)
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Apr 5, 2009
how to make a program that reads the url of ie or Firefox.. really Want to make a program like this ..
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May 5, 2012
I need to make a program that will log into various websites in firefox. I have done this using the webbrowser control. But now I need to do it using Firefox. I have looked into HTTPWebRequests but with that it seems that you are just pretending to be a web browser. I actually need the page to load and log in in firefox. Considered just bundling a load of sendkeys in but that is very un-professional.
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Feb 18, 2011
I made a program yesterday. I have a webBrowser in my program. The webBrowser uses Internet explorer as its default browser. I would like to use firefox as the internal default browser. How do I do this without having to launch a separate program?
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Jul 21, 2009
I have been trying to integrate our old VB6 program into a VB .Net application (running the VB6 pgm inside the VB .Net pgm). Following recommendation from another website, I created an interface program in VB6 (InterfaceVB6) so I can pass the VB6ClientPgm Window Handler to my VB .Net program. Please see following code to see how I load the VB6ClientPgm in the Dot Net program.
1. In the VB6ClientPgm, I have to use "mainForm.Show VbModal" to show the form otherwise it gave me an error "Non-modal forms cannot be displayed in this host application from an ActiveX DLL, ActiveX Control, or Property Page." from the Dot Net program.
2. If I change the code to "mainForm.Show VbModal", when the VB6 program is loaded, the form is not positioning to the top of my tabpage. Instead, it is positioning on the left upper corner of the Dot Net application. Also, because of the VbModal mode, I cannot use any other functions in the Dot Net program unless I close the VB6ClientPgm. BTW, I used the same concept to load VBDotNetClientPgm (written in VB .Net) and it works.Is it possible to accomplish what I want to do (load VB6 pgm in VB .Net program)?
===1. VB6ClientPgm - client program to be loaded into the Dot Net program
Public Function IPlugin_GetMainWindowHandler() As Long
Load mainForm
[code]....
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Apr 7, 2010
I have a contact manager program that I'd like to design for multiple network marketing companies. My desired structure would include a core program which covers basic contact management functions. After that one could purchase a module for their specific network marketing company. This module would contain a variety of controls that the original program would need to be able to manipulate. Here is an example of what it would have to have:A group box containing buttons that link to a genealogy view, and the option to import one's donwnline from the back office provided by a company.A panel which is displayed on the contact page allowing the user to input business information or which will be filled by importing a downline from the back office: ie business ID, qualification level, sponsor information etc.a panel displayed when one searches for contacts on the contact list page which allows the user to sort based on information such as when they joined, what their business id is and so forth.a panel which is displayed in a personal business overview page which presents to an individual how many people in their downline are at each qualification level and develop a mailing list for individuals of a certain qualification level.
I have the code developed to perform all these functions, I just wanted to give you an example of what needed to be done. I'm thinking that what I'm trying to create is a library that one can download and the program will recognize, but I'm not really sure where to go. What I'm really trying to do is figure out what kind of file I can make that will contain all this code and the GUI information that the program will recognize.
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Sep 14, 2010
I want to write a program to write in an xml file in this format:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <Orders>
<Item id="1" SKU="998123" Description="Super Widget" Quantity="100" />
[Code]....
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Jun 15, 2009
how i can write a program to create a shortcut in the startup folder of a different program. So i have one program on my computer that should run at startup, i just need another program to create a shortcut to it, and then copy this shortcut into the startup folder.
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Sep 20, 2010
i have to write a program for my VB class that consists of a resistance checker program. I've searched like a madman to help me through this and I have found nothing >. The program consists of 2 combo boxes, the first one is the nominal resistance drop down list of the numbers :100, 150, 220, 330, 470, 680, 820 and 1000. The second list is of the tolerance numbers; +/- 0.4%, +/-0.6% and +/-0.8%. Now what i want to do is select a number from the first combo box and select the tolerance level of the second combo box and i input the resistor of said value into the text box. when i click the check resistor button it should display a message saying if the resistor is in or out of tolerance. For now I have the form all laid out and the values inputted into both combo boxes and i can go to run the program i am able to select said values. Now my problem is trying to get the right code so that i can check the resistors value.
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Nov 4, 2010
I want to get the last plug date of a usb device, and view the tech article below [URL] But i did not understand the following sentence: "To determine when the device was last connected to the system, obtain the LastWrite time value from the respective Disk and Volume GUID Registry keys for the device."
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Apr 23, 2010
create plugin for my project.
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Mar 10, 2011
I have a Browser application written using the .NET webbrowser control. As I understand, the 'webbrowser' control is based on Internet Explorer.
So, I was wondering if it is possible to use the add-ons or plug-ins (like Adblock, IE7pro etc.) that were developed for Internet Explorer with the webbrowser control.
This will really save me a lot of time as many of these plug-ins provide the functionality that I am looking for and are freely available.
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Aug 10, 2011
I am currently making a GUI for Minecraft Coder Pack. MCP works off a system of batch files that launch python programs. I want to be able to read and write to these cmd windows throught vb.net. So that I can tell when a process has finished or to answer a yes, no question i nthe python program, with a gui from vb.net[code]\...
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Jan 24, 2011
How do I write a vb10 program that works in windows me. I am getting an err message saying MSCOREE.DLL expects a newer version of windows.
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Mar 16, 2009
I've never actually used Reflection, but I've been warned in the past that using it may cause slow performance. My question is what part(s) of it is/are slow.
I'm thinking about creating a board game and I wanted to implement the player class through plug-ins. That way there could be several different player classes (i.e. human players, and several configurable AI classes). If implemented this way, where should I expect performance hits? Only when initializing the player class? When passing arguments to methods in the player class? In the entirety of execution of methods from the player class? Or is it going to affect the whole application?
The reason I ask is that the AI will be extremely processor intensive. Through testing it seems like it may take around 1-30 seconds to determine a move on my quad core (Core 2 Q6600) processor, depending on the effort spent to optimize the move and testing different branches on separate threads.
My concern is that if I implement the AI via a plug-in, the move determination would slow down considerably to the point where it wasn't playable on lesser hardware.
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Aug 18, 2011
those applications that has a plug-in features. What I meant by plug-in is that the application has a capabilities of integration with 3rd party softwares for enhancements.
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Jul 17, 2011
I am trying to detect plug/unplug of usb flashdrive using WMI. I used this code:
Imports System.Management
Public Class Form1
Private WithEvents m_MediaConnectWatcher As New ManagementEventWatcher
Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
Dim query2 As New WqlEventQuery("SELECT * FROM __InstanceOperationEvent WITHIN 1 " _
[Code] .....
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Jul 8, 2010
A thread execute plug-in!.Basically it executes the given sub on a separate thread using delegates.I also made a "Delegate Execute" plug-in to invoke a sub.[code]
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Feb 18, 2011
I've written a pretty good browser in vb.net (it's in the "Share your Project" forum). I now want to give users and other developers the ability to extend/add buttons & functions to it. Can anyone suggest to me a good way of implementing this bearing in mind that I've never tried to do anything like this before? (so basically a way of implementing a plug-in based system. I was planning on these being small snippets of code which my application has the ability to compile.)
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Jul 25, 2009
very often i see code written from others, and when browsing over a function i want to see where this function is called from. Even when i debug my own code, i'd find it a useful feature.In c++ this feature is default in visual studio(its called browse-something), but i havent found any such thing for VB.NET yet, any ideas?
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Jul 15, 2011
Currently I'm writing a VB.NET app and it's getting big, resulting in its become very slow.Is there any application (or plug in) that can test the performance in seconds?I mean, when I click a button and it displays a product, I want to know exactly how long it is gonna take.
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Jul 10, 2010
I want to send On and Off Signals to a USB Cord Connected to my Laptop.Universal Serial Bus, right? In my IDE, I have put a SerialPort Object onto my form. But I don't know how to detect or how to find out at what port number the USB 2.0 Cord is connected to? I wanna start working with Motors and Stepper Mototos with VB.NET. But I fear I am not smart enough to mess with it. I have done many different things with VB.NET, I wans to start messing with Serial Ports, and Serial Communication. It Says COM1, a USB Cord Connected to my laptop is not a COM1.
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Aug 24, 2011
I'm working on a project that is based on modules and plug-ins. Any of these modules might alter some part of a database in various ways. One module might write or edit one table, while another module might write or edit other tables.
The modules all communicate via events raised on a common object. Therefore, when a person using module A enters a certain change that would edit data managed by module A, the module raises a Proposed Edit event such that all other modules that might be affected by the edit will have a chance to accept or reject the edit. If no module rejects the edit, then module A makes its changes and raises an Edit event, at which time all the other modules make any changes they need to make.
That's the basic pattern, but there's a problem. If I don't share a transaction during the edit, then module A can successfully edit their tables, but module B might fail to edit their table. In some cases, the failure by B should rollback the changes made by A. Therefore, it would make sense for module A to share an open transaction for all the other modules to use while making their changes, and this gets either committed or rolled back, depending on whether everyone was successful, or not.
The problem with that design is that a person could write a new module C that had a bug which caused it to fail to update correctly. That would cause it to signal that the transaction failed, such that all the other modules, which had been working up to that point, would no longer work because this new module kept canceling the transactions. In other words, the modularity of the program has now been lost. Every module depends entirely on every other module that even cares about its data.
In most cases, what would be lost if certain modules failed would be minor, whereas what would be lost if other modules failed would be catastrophic, as there would be no way to re-create the lost data with any kind of ease.As long as this explanation is, it may not be sufficient. At least it might start a discussion. Do the actions of all the modules act in the same transaction, or should they be left to succeed or fail on their own?
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May 15, 2010
I'm looking at writing a plug in for microsoft internet explorer. but I can't find any documentation for doing so in vb.net so the questions are: is it possible to write an IE plug in in vb.net? where is documentation on it? and of course documentation on installing it. Why? I want to write a password plug in like Roboform for the most part as an educational project second as pasword manager I can use myself..
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Feb 24, 2012
I'm writing a Windows Forms application in VB.Net 2010. The application's purpose is to recreate the Device Manager in VB.Net. The idea here is to capture the information provided by Device Manager and store it in a database. In turn this information could be used as a configuration management tool.
My device tree is coming along nicely, with one minor exception. There are hidden devices that Device Manager does not display by default. Show Hidden Devices causes Device Manager to display these devices. My Device Manager displays them by default. I want to duplicate the Device Manager behavior of being able to hide and display these devices in my appilcation. I have had some success with this task in that I am able to hide the Plug and Play devices that are marked as hidden by windows by use of the "Don't Display In DM" flag. There is the small issue of the Non Plug and Play Device Class. My question is this... Is there a similar flag for Non Plug and Play devices? I have found a reference to the PNP_DEVICE_STATE and IRP_MN_QUERY_PNP_DEVICE_STATE IRP. It contains a flag
PNP_DEVICE_DONT_DISPLAY_IN_UI. My problem is that I cannot find any guidance as to the structure of this API declare and the coding needed to use it. I'm not even sure if this API will be helpful in accomplishing my task. I want to hide the Non Plug and Play devices and device class in my tree. Can someone please assist me with the locating an API that will accomplish this and the proper coding of the API in VB?
I am using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Running Windows 7 Ultimate with all Service Packs and updates applied.
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