Hi all,
I need to find a way to modify IE's behavior so that when the user clicks on hyperlinks that contain a specific string, that link is sent to another application than IE instead. 'Kind of what Adobe Reader plugin does when you click on PDF links and that the browser integration is disabled (Adobe Reader/Preferences/Browser integration = unchecked).
Is it possible to do this with IE Addins Where should I start
Here is the workflow of what I need:
1) The user clicks on an hyperlink that contains the specific string on some webpage.
2) IE does NOT navigate to the address of the hyperlink.
3) Instead, the URL's string is sent to an application X (rich client) already installed on the Client machine.
Thanks,
P.S.: Where is the SDK for IE Addin development
Link replacement addin
Rakam
When you say "specific string", what part of the string are you looking at If you want to create a custom protocol (e.g. myapp://mydatastring) see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/workshop/networking/pluggable/overview/appendix_a.asp
For the Adobe scenario, IE actually just downloads the .PDF file and the application/pdf MIME type is registered such that it's marked "Safe to open" and hence IE launches the application, which was determined by the Content-Type header sent with the file.
Mazzie
Hi,
Take a look at a Browser Helper Object for this and intercept the navigation. http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie/reference/default.aspx pull=/library/en-us/dnwebgen/html/bho.asp
We have more documentation in the works for add in development but there is already some available on msdn at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie
Thanks
-Dave