Pro Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Development: Developing Powerful Applications for The Next Generation of IE [Paperback]

Matthew Crowley (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 24, 2010 | ISBN-10: 1430228539 | ISBN-13: 978-1430228530 | Edition: 1

This book is an in-depth guide to writing applications that embrace and extend the new features and capabilities of Windows Internet Explorer 8 and 9. With solid instruction, hands-on examples, and expert insight direct from the source into extending the browser, you'll learn how to create and maintain powerful applications for Microsoft’s next-generation Internet platform. Join author Matthew Crowley as you discover how to take advantage of new features like accelerators, WebSlices, and search providers, and create intense web experiences for the browser that ships by default with the popular Windows 7 operating system.

If you're interested in creating and shipping high-quality, feature-rich applications for the Web, Pro Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Development is the only resource you need.

What you’ll learn

• Understand the architecture and design of Internet Explorer.
• Build browser-based extensions such as ActiveX controls, toolbars, explorer bars, browser helper objects, and pluggable protocols.
• Extend existing web services with accelerators, WebSlices, and search providers.
• Enhance applications using Internet Explorer APIs, COM objects, and controls.
• Design extensions that integrate with Windows security features.
• Debug applications designed for Internet Explorer.
• Address compatibility and upgrade scenarios for applications.
• Utilize powerful tools for enhancing extension development.
• Master best practices in constructing world-class applications.

Who this book is for

This book, while geared toward code-minded individuals, is also meant for a larger segment of the web community. Potential readers include:

• Project managers seeking a new idea for development and deployment
• Product planners looking to create new features based off of Internet Explorer’s development framework
• Hobbyists interested in web browsers and Internet programming

Intermediate to advanced developers will get the most from this book. This book assumes that the reader is familiar with HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Later sections require the reader have some understanding of C++ and/or C#.

Table of Contents

1. Internet Explorer Architecture
2. Interoperability and Compatibility
3. Enriching Web Applications with AJAX and JSON
4. Connecting Services with Accelerators
5. Debugging and Inspecting Pages with Developer Tools
6. Scripting with Mutable DOM Prototypes
7. Debugging and Inspecting Pages with Fiddler
8. Content Syndication with Web Slices
9. Building Search Provider and Search Suggestion Extensions
10. Building Lightweight Buttons and Menu Extensions
11. Developing Applications with the WebBrowser Control
12. Enhancing Page Content with Managed ActiveX Controls
13. Building In-Process Extensions with Browser Helper Objects
14. Extending the Browser Frame Using Band Objects
15. Scripting and Automating Internet Explorer

 

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About the Author

Matthew David Crowley is the program manager for developer community and tools on the Microsoft Internet Explorer team. In his role, he focuses on the development, implementation, and sustainment of features such as the IE Developer Tools, ActiveX, Protected Mode, and Behaviors. Before working at Microsoft, Matthew was an independent contractor and a developer for a variety of organizations. He earned a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

Product Details

• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (November 24, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430228539
• ISBN-13: 978-1430228530
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #288,674 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "PRO" level coverage of IE and it's quirks, December 20, 2010

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Michael Piscatello "mpiscatello" (Kentucky, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pro Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Development: Developing Powerful Applications for The Next Generation of IE (Paperback)

This is definitely a "PRO" level guide to Internet Explorer. In the words of author Matthew Crowley, "...an insider's view on how the browser operates as well as intimate access to its public API..." The book delivers. I never knew there was this much to know about a web browser. The author starts with a good architectural overview of IE and then systematically moves through various topics on harnessing the features of IE. Chapter 2 (Interoperability and Compatibility) should be required reading for any web developer. There is great information about how IE works and how Microsoft has managed compatibility issues over the past few releases. I also found chapters 5 & 6 (Developer Tools, Debugging with Fiddler) to be very useful. The book is filled with code examples and each chapter stands by itself as a reference. I appreciate how the author starts each chapter with an overview of what he will cover and then ends each chapter with a summary. It you have to deal with IE on a daily basis this book can help. If you are writing applications for IE then this book is invaluable.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A bag full of tricks, January 4, 2011

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Carlos Vazquez (San Luis Potosi, Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pro Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Development: Developing Powerful Applications for The Next Generation of IE (Paperback)

When most of us are browsing the web with the latest and fastest web browsers, developers that are used to work with IE are facing the unthinkable: should we start to develop for other browsers? unfortunately, there's no easy answer for this question, however, after reading this book, I think there seems to be hope for the developers that still are on IE side.

One of the features that I liked the most about his book is thoroughness, in fact, there were a couple of times that I thought I was reading something else because there are too many features about IE that the average developer - like myself - are not aware of but rest assured, you'll change the way you look at IE after reading this book.

If there's something anyone likes (developer or not) is honesty, this book is honest or honestly written if you will, Matthew Crowley warns everyone that web development is hard, that we must face several difficulties and make choices in order to get our developments right, some choices will be made in order to be up to date and others to comply with real customer's requests sometimes both will be incompatible.

This book deserves 5 stars because of the following chapters:

Chapter 2 Interoperability and Compatibility.- a short but concise list of features that are not championed by the people of IE community plus a succinct and useful list of reasons why web development is not easy (The web developer's dilemma, p 52)

Chapter 3 Enriching Web Applications with AJAX and JSON.- one of the reasons why other web browser are becoming more popular is the use of these two technologies and although there's a bunch of information around about them, it's hard to find some insight when it comes to IE, so look no further, this chapter is going to be a real treat for the AJAX and JSON developer.

Chapter 5 Debugging and Inspecting Pages with Developer Tools.- a handful of very good examples of debugging and how-to's.

4.0 out of 5 stars A question, March 31, 2011

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This review is from: Pro Internet Explorer 8 & 9 Development: Developing Powerful Applications for The Next Generation of IE (Paperback)

Hi,

Can I ask if there is a (source code) supplementary material accompanying this book? If so, where can I download it from, please?

As I understand it, the source code should exist somewhere, since the author states in page 276 (paragraph 3): "This interface is defined in another class included in the companion project accompanying this book."

Many thanks in advance,