Chris Szurgot's Blog

For those who are interested start with Part 1 and Part 2

After working with a program for 4 years (even if I didn't invest *that* much time in it) I didn't want to walk away from it altogether, but the reality is, Mozilla's "Open In Tabs" function, suffices for my daily browsing needs. But I still needed a program to help with perusing archival sites, and editing of bookmarks was not an easy task. And after working on this program, I wanted to do this. (Even if there is something else out there, I don't know, never looked)

If only the HtmlControl, or the WebBrowser Control would let me use Service Pack 2's popup blocker. All my issues would be solved... Then it hit me, there is. You can actuall create a new instance of Internet Explorer itself, and control itas a real IE Window, not as an Active X control. That's it! That's the solution! Back to the lab, fire up VS.NET 2003 (I used 2003 so I could release it sooner rather than later) and I finally got a fully functional "Site Bookmarker". It uses some pretty basic concepts for maintenance (List View, for display, drag a book mark in, hit delete to delete a book mark, edit the label in place, and that's about it) But it works,and I'm pretty pleased. I've already been able to go through two archives in 2 days, pretty quickly.

If only they'd done a popup blocker sooner... If got sites in here I haven't looked at since 2000, when I started  this project. That's a lot of daily/weekly comics to go through. <grin>

(Coming up... An actual release)

(Not really a big deal, just need to test some more, and come up with a name)