Part I: Making Your Own Internet Explorer in VS .NET

Encoding QR in VS .NET Part I: Making Your Own Internet Explorer

If you want to get a quick introduction to the Browser Construction Kit and the things you can do with it, Part I is the place to start Along the way, you

also discover good reasons for creating browsers (as if you need any), as well as discover what parts of a browser are easily customizable

This part goes through the Browser Construction Kit in detail, showing you how to use its many controls and commands, as well as how all the parts fit together to create a unique browser design

Many components of your custom browser can display images that you create yourself with a paint program These images include backgrounds for the window, border images, button images, and much more In this part of the book, you discover how to make the images you need for your browser and all without having to go to art school for four years!

This is the second part of the book that deals in detail with the workings of the Browser Construction Kit Here, you find out about alarms, locks, passwords, timers, automatic screen captures, log files, and more

The Browser Construction Kit is all about creating browsers, of course, and this part is where you put together browser designs that I ve created for you, to demonstrate the many ways you can use the Browser Construction Kit In this part, step-by-step procedures lead you through the construction of eight different browsers

For people who want to really expand their custom-browser-creation horizons, this part of the book offers ten themed browser projects, as well as ten tools and resources for learning more about programming Internet Explorer if you choose to take it that far

Throughout this book, little pictures, known as icons, appear in the margin These icons give you a quick visual aid to the following categories: Whenever you see this icon, you ll find information on how to do something more efficiently

This icon provides technical background information that you may or may not find interesting You don t need to read the material if you don t want to

Be careful! When you see this icon, pay special attention because it notes places where you could run into trouble

This book is accompanied by a CD, and whenever you see this icon, you re getting a heads up that you should have your CD ready to use

You can use this book in a couple of ways Like any book, you can start at the beginning and read your way to the end That s probably the best way to learn about the Browser Construction Kit software and the things you can do with the custom browsers you build You can, however, skip around in the book, if you like, just reading the sections that provide the information you need at any given moment Because of this nonlinear approach, after you know how to use the software, this book makes a great reference The Browser Construction Kit represents a whole lot of hours of programming, so I expect you to get the most out of it But more than anything, I expect you to have fun!

hy on earth would you want to build your own version of Internet Explorer I can think of a number of reasons, and in this part of the book, I share those reasons with you You also find out a little about the parts of a browser you can customize In addition, you get your first look at the Browser Construction Kit, exploring the features you can use, the custom graphics you can incorporate, and the agreement you must make with Microsoft (not as scary as it sounds)