Re: How to enable IE Toolbar plugin on installing

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:10:47 -0500
Message-ID:
<OUgrvb9fIHA.5996@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl>
Francis <francis.rammeloo@gmail.com> wrote:

- I read that I can implement the BHO in the same DLL as the band
object.


Yes.

Now, does this BHO need its own CLSID


Yes.

- Similar question: my toolbar already implements IObjectWithSite, can
I add the code to it's implementation of SetSite, or do I need to make
a new class that implements this interface?


I guess in theory you could register the same object as both a toolbar
and a BHO. But it's not clear how this object is going to figure out
whether a particular instance is supposed to act as a toolbar or as a
BHO. I'd go (and have gone in the past) with a separate object.

- The documentation only mentions to add one registry item
(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
\Browser Helper Objects\<CLSID>). Is this really the only one?


Yes.
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