ASP.NET and IE Toolbar menu items

[TheBigYinJames]

When the user clicks on a button within MyWindow I want to know what is in the main window so I can decide what/how/when to do some processing.
Request.Referer is not populated.

Bum. Bit of a puzzler then. I haven't used custom windows, so not sure what functionality they offer. A quick look at MSDN reveals that they are implemented as separate COM objects, so you will indeed have to COM into IE.

I found a page which might help you do this though:
http://delphi.about.com/od/windowssh.../aa060303a.htm

Good luck!

[Jaws]

To me it sounds like you need to use javascript to achieve what I believe you are asking. "window.location" might do it. If you need ASP.NET to handle it perhaps have your button pass window.location to the query string?

ASP.NET is server side code after all, and it appears like what you are requesting is dependent on the client.

[TheBigYinJames]

To me it sounds like you need to use javascript to achieve what I believe you are asking. "window.location" might do it. If you need ASP.NET to handle it perhaps have your button pass window.location to the query string?
ASP.NET is server side code after all, and it appears like what you are requesting is dependent on the client.

After initially thinking the same thing when I thought it was an inter-frame thing, it's become clear JavaScript won't work in this case, since the Custom Explorer Bar is not implemented as a webpage within the IE DOM - it's implemented as a separate COM object within Windows.

If he implemented it as a Frame, he could manipulate the contents of the main window, except if the window was on a different domain (which is likely) then you would run into your domain sandbox problem (Access Denied, in JS)
So if all the pages required were on the same domain, you could just write a left hand nav panel. But if any of the pages are out of domain, then you'll get security problems - saying that you might still be able to get some read-only values, such as .location.

After having a look at custom explorer bars, they look like a really crap half-solution, since to do anything halfway decent he's going to have to write (essentially) a Windows application to tie the two things together.

[RichardCranium]

Even worse, from ASP.NET, how can I get to see what the user gets up to in the bedroom?

open net.curtain ?
view window ?






IGMC...

[techno]

I found a page which might help you do this though:
http://delphi.about.com/od/windowssh.../aa060303a.htm

Virtual pint to TheBigYinJames