Add-in Express for Internet Explorer, version 9 Beta is published

6 Comments

• Bob Apostolico says:

  April 11, 2014 at 12:37 pm

  Andrei,

  I’m probably missing something in the object-model:

  The documentation lists that the following modules (ADXIEModule, ADXIEToolbarModule, and ADXIEBarModule) have methods for communicating to the Broker (SendDataToBroker).

  I’ve created the Broker App. I’ve set the BrokerGuid in my Add-on to the Guid of the Broker App. My Add-in is using the Advanced Bar. I need to save information entered in this bar into the registry or similar data-store. I can’t see how to get from the save button click event, somehow calling or sending a message to matching-instance of the IEModule running, so it can then finally send the “save” message and data to the Broker application.

  Any assistance in this area would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you.
  Bob

• Bob Apostolico says:

  April 11, 2014 at 12:58 pm

  UPDATE:

  I believe that I just found the answer to my previous post.

  Please correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like the AdvancedBar has a .Module property that directly exposes the SendDataToBroker.

  Thank you.
  Bob.

• Bob Apostolico says:

  April 11, 2014 at 4:24 pm

  Andrei,

  I’ve got a very basic test add-in working, using the Broker, on my DEV system (Windows 7 64-bit, IE 11). I used WiX 3.8 to create a setup project, and build a distribution to put it on a test system (before I invested more time, I wanted to make sure I could distribute the add-on).

  Other than a try-catch, I made no changes to the Broker’s startup program:
  [MTAThread]
  static void Main(string[] args)
  {
  try {
  Application.EnableVisualStyles();
  Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
  ADXIEBrokerModule.Initialize(typeof(IEBrokerModule), args);
  }
  catch (Exception ex) {
  SigBOP.Utils.ErrorWriteToLog(ex);
  }
  }

  In the IEBrokerModule itself, other than additional try-catches, there’s nothing mystical that I’m doing:

  public IEBrokerModule() {
  try {
  InitializeComponent();
  }
  catch (Exception ex) {
  SigBOP.Utils.ErrorWriteToLog(ex);
  }
  }

  private void IEBrokerModule_OnDataReceived(object sender, AddinExpress.IE.Broker.ADXIEBrokerDataReceivedEventArgs e)
  {
  // System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print(“IEBrokerModule_OnDataReceived”);
  try {

  var request = e.RequestData as Hashtable;
  var response = new Hashtable();

  if ( request[“operation”].ToString() == “writevalue” ) {

  var fs = System.IO.File.CreateText(“c:\\test\\ie\\ietest.txt”);
  fs.WriteLine(“Wrote to local storage!”);
  fs.Flush();
  fs.Close();

  response.Add(“result”,”ok”);
  e.ResponseData = response;
  }
  }
  catch (Exception ex) {
  SigBOP.Utils.ErrorWriteToLog(ex);
  }

  }

  private void IEBrokerModule_OnError(object sender, AddinExpress.IE.Broker.ADXIEBrokerErrorEventArgs e) {
  // System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print(“IEBrokerModule_OnError”);
  }

  private void IEBrokerModule_OnFinalize(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  // System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print(“IEBrokerModule_OnFinalize”);
  }

  private void IEBrokerModule_OnInitialize(object sender, AddinExpress.IE.Broker.ADXIEBrokerInitializeEventArgs e) {
  // System.Diagnostics.Debug.Print(“IEBrokerModule_OnInitialize”);
  }

  Here’s the problem: Testing on an identical Windows 7, 64-bit machine with IE11 installed, I get the below errors:

  ADD-IN/DLL gets an Error Pop-up in Internet Explorer that says:
  ‘SigBOP’ has fired an exception. Click the ‘Details’ button to see the detailed information about the error.

  When I click details, I get this >>

  Detailed technical information follows:
  —
  Date and Time: 4/11/2014 5:06:02 PM
  Machine Name: SB-FRODO
  IP Address: fe80::6139:86fe:90d:cd88%10
  Current User: SIGBOP\bapostolico

  Application Domain: C:\Program Files (x86)\SigBOP\
  Assembly Codebase: file:///C:/Program Files (x86)/SigBOP/AddinExpress.IE.DLL
  Assembly Full Name: AddinExpress.IE, Version=9.0.6121.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4416dd98f0861965
  Assembly Version: 9.0.6121.0

  Exception Source:
  Exception Type: AddinExpress.IE.ADXIEBrokerApplicationException
  Exception Message: Unable to open broker pipe.
  Exception Target Site: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

  —- Stack Trace —-

  ***********************
  Additionally, in the background, sbBroker app comes up with a Windows App Crash error:

  Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
  Application Name: sbBroker.exe
  Application Version: 1.0.0.0
  Application Timestamp: 53483aec
  Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
  Fault Module Version: 6.1.7601.18229
  Fault Module Timestamp: 51fb1677
  Exception Code: e0434352
  Exception Offset: 000000000000940d
  OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.4
  Locale ID: 1033
  Additional Information 1: 2413
  Additional Information 2: 2413de213f38e5efe700010a55469627
  Additional Information 3: bac5
  Additional Information 4: bac5ff64771af3c4a65ada835e80e994

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  NONE of my try-catches are ever hit, because IF they were, they would log the exception to disk. So something else is dying, but I’m not sure where to look.

  I’ve tried turning UAC completely OFF (and rebooted) on the TEST system, but it doesn’t help.

  I’ve Googled AddinExpress.IE.ADXIEBrokerApplicationException Unable to open broker pipe and can’t find any solution.

  How do I go about resolving this issue?

  PLEASE point me in the correct direction.

  If I can show my supervisors that we can get this working and distributed, we will be purchasing Pro version.

  Thank you.
  Bob

• Sergey Grischenko (Add-in Express Team) says:

  April 14, 2014 at 7:01 am

  Hi Bob,

  Did you add the broker application to the setup project? Please ask your questions on our forum: https://www.add-in-express.com/forum/list.php?FID=10

• Bob Apostolico says:

  April 14, 2014 at 7:49 am

  I’m working with a trial subscription.
  I’ll gladly post to the forum,
  but I need someone to enable my account to be able to do so.

  Thank you.
  Bob.

• Andrei Smolin (Add-in Express Team) says:

  April 14, 2014 at 9:01 am

  Bob,

  Sorry for referring you to the forum; we didn’t think you might not have a valid subscription key to register. Please send us an answer to Sergey’s question by email. You can find the support email address in {Add-in Express installation folder}\readme.txt.

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