open html page onclick of IE Toolbar button

Question

hi,

 i am very new to IE Extension development, recently i have developed the Chrome & Firefox extension. Now i want to do the same for IE, but it is bit complicated than other browser extension development. i have few questions in that,

 1. is there any tool available to migrate the chrome/Firefox extension to IE browser extension ?

 2. How to open the new popup.html page on click of IE browser extension button, like in Chrome extension?

3. How to give badge text in IE Extension button like Chrome badge extension?

please guide me on this...

Thanks,

Gunasekaran Sambandhan

Answer 1

I think you have to read articles at the following link first: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753616(v=vs.85).aspx

In two words: An extension for IE browser can be developed using .NET (C#, C++) or native C++. IE doesn't support JS extensions.

Hope this help.

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Sergey