Tag: favorites

I revisited my Internet Explorer 7 Favorites guide now that Beta 2 is available. Previously, Beta 1 had two major issues: the favorites menu would crash and, if the menu was large, it would fill and obscure the screen. Thankfully, both problems seem resolved in Beta 2; the menu is scrollable like in IE6 and no longer crashes.

YMDB.com is a great site for listing your favorite movies and finding others with similar tastes. While the current interface is a bit tedious for adding and sorting films, it's still a worthwhile resource. I'd love to see an AJAX-style update to improve the user experience. Check out my profile for some examples of how I use YMDB.

I stumbled upon a helpful link about colour theory, which explains how to combine colours effectively. I'm fascinated by this concept and plan to research it further. Currently, my colour theory knowledge is limited to using shades of the same colour, such as SteelBlue and LightSteelBlue. I'll explore Google and Wikipedia for more information. I've bookmarked the link, despite my Favorites in IE7 crashing.

My IE7 Beta 1 keeps crashing when I try to expand my favorites list, although it works fine in collapsed view. This might be related to the large number of unsorted favorites I have, as mentioned in my previous post. Has anyone else encountered this issue or found a solution? Please email me if you have any suggestions. I also plan to re-add searches to the sections below soon.

I've been exploring the RSS features in IE7 Beta 1 and have a couple of suggestions. First, it would be great if we could add feeds to favorites directly from the feeds toolbar button, rather than having to navigate to the feed itself. It's an extra step when we've already decided we like the content enough to add it. Second, I'm curious about how IE7 discovers feeds on a page. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Is it just looking for a specific link tag in the head section or is there more to it? It seems to struggle with feeds linked via anchor tags. Overall, I'm enjoying IE7 so far, just want to offer some feedback.

This post explores how to access and iterate through a user's Internet Explorer Favorites in C#. I've included C# code that retrieves the Favorites directory and recursively iterates through its folders and files. The code also parses the .URL files to extract the actual URLs. Currently, the code doesn't retrieve the friendly name displayed in the Favorites menu (e.g., "Microsoft" instead of "www.microsoft.com"), but I'm looking into using IShellLink for this and would appreciate any insights.