IE Plugin communicating with loaded My Silverlight application

[Felix Venniker]

Hi all,

I wanne build a plugin for IE 6 and 7 that displays an additional horizontal
Explorer Bar which will contain a WebBrowser control in which a Silverlight
application will be loaded. This SL app will be responsible for performing
some operations that will be executed (controlled) by the IE plugin. What I
mean is that this IE plugin will call the SL application (from the outside)
to perform some operation passing it some parameters (in this case the html
of the current loaded website in the main browser window/tab). In other
words, the IE plugin should be able to communicate with the loaded SL app. Is
this possible? Can an IE plugin access my SL app and call a (public) method
of this SL app to perform some operation?

Going further, is the above possible when implementing a plugin for other
browsers (besides IE), for instance FireFox, Safari etc. and possibly on a
Mac OS? In other words, is there a standard mechanisme that will work on any
browser on any platform?

So the main question is: Can a SL app be made accessible from the outside
world, in my case a plugin?

Kind regards,

Felix Venniker

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Post by Felix Venniker
Hi all,
I wanne build a plugin for IE 6 and 7 that displays an additional horizontal
Explorer Bar which will contain a WebBrowser control in which a Silverlight
application will be loaded. This SL app will be responsible for performing
some operations that will be executed (controlled) by the IE plugin. What I
mean is that this IE plugin will call the SL application (from the outside)
to perform some operation passing it some parameters (in this case the html
of the current loaded website in the main browser window/tab). In other
words, the IE plugin should be able to communicate with the loaded SL app.
Is this possible? Can an IE plugin access my SL app and call a (public)
method of this SL app to perform some operation?
Going further, is the above possible when implementing a plugin for other
browsers (besides IE), for instance FireFox, Safari etc. and possibly on a
Mac OS? In other words, is there a standard mechanisme that will work on any
browser on any platform?
So the main question is: Can a SL app be made accessible from the outside
world, in my case a plugin?
Kind regards,
Felix Venniker