Developing applications for IE 8 - c#

Anyone know of any good references for building applications for IE 8? I found this http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430228539 (but not yet released)
for example: I would like to build a simple toolbar app that records visited websites. That possible?
Or are they other suggestions on how to build this type of application?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa753587%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
MSDN seems like the ideal source.

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UWP File Picker Contract / Provider

I'm looking for a point in the right direction. We're thinking of building an app in our office, and one of the features we're looking at is to be able to open and save files from our app in other apps and applications.
We came across the File Picker Contract which, with some simple examples, seems to be what we're looking for. But the one thing missing is it only seems to be available in other Universal apps (but it doesn't seem all of them).
Using multiple examples, we were able to see our apps in our other apps, but I'm hoping to take it further. For example, I thought Office 2016 was a Universal app, so shouldn't File Picker Contract apps appear in there as well? And is there a way to add it globally to all File Open / Save Pickers (like from notepad, or the snipping tool)?
This MSDN page (article) seems to suggest the picker uses a single, unified interface. Shouldn't that be the same interface the rest of the operating system uses?
Thanks in advance.
If you have to support Classic Windows apps, filepickercontract is not a right solution. It's only applicable for 'modern'... Win8.1 store or Win10 UWP apps.
And, current office2016(for desktop) is not an UWP app, I believe. UWP ver of Office 2016 is only applicable for Win10 Mobile.
One alternative is make a shell extension. By using this, you can extend the explorer's shell space and add your own items to explorer tree. But shell extension is so complex, old and only applicable for desktop devicefamily. I don't think that now is a nice timing to implement it.
I hope this answer could help you.

Handle multiple "windows" in Windows Store apps in Windows 8.1

Ok, I have a question to which, despite my best efforts, I have not been able to solve. I searched the internet, and this is one of those that is particularly difficult to search for, but it seems that no user of Windows 8.1 nor any developers developing for Windows 8.1 has posted to any website asking how to do this (I could be wrong, of course).
What I am trying to do is make a Windows Store app targeting Windows 8.1, that takes advantage of multiple Windows. To see what I mean, open up metro ie, right click on a tab, and click "open in new window." This is also in the mail app, where you can open a single message in another window, which behaves like a separate app, and can be snapped like so. It's a new feature of the Windows 8.1 OS.
But I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it in C# and XAML. Does anyone know how? Thanks.
Alex
There are new APIs in Windows.UI.ViewManagement, namely the ApplicationViewSwitcher and ProjectionManager classes. The former is for working with multiple independent views that the user can arrange side by side on whatever monitors they have, which is what IE and Mail use; the latter is for working with multiple monitors.
See the Application Views sample along with the Projection sample for working both scenarios in code.
Might be bit late with my answer, nevertheless I had your similar apprehensions about the "Dismal Support Refs" for this subject, when I first began searching the topic. However I have been able to overcome this and use the feature in my apps. There are some good refs available; The Windows Dev Centre has a Quickstart ie "Quiskstart Creating Multiple Windows", a Good guide is the "MultipleViews" Sample, With the following providing additional support.
1) "Be two places at once using multiple windows" at
https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/01/09/be-two-places-at-once-using-multiple-windows/#pBHiQtDSPFrCA7Gv.97
2) "MultipleViews for Windows 8.1 apps" (parts 1-3)
http://www.kraigbrockschmidt.com/2013/11/21/multiple-views-creating-view/
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Whether to choose WPF(browser application) or Silverlight

I dig into the WPF(browser app) and Silverlight application environment to know which one is best suitable for web development. I search out many portals saying that WPF is good for window forms and Silverlight for web. I also tested my WPF web app on different browsers and faced thousands of browser plugins issues except IE browser. As I come to know Silverlight is sub party of WPF which means SL has less features as compare to WPF. Now I want to figure out which practice is best suitable for web development and why?????
Thanks in advance
Silverlight is being discontinued, so don't use it for anything important. Use WPF if you want that kind of display tech, or Metro w/C# or Javascript

How do I open up a specific page in the windows help dialogue?

A lot of built in Windows applications will have links to pages in the windows help. Is there any way I can create a linklabel that will open up a Windows Help dialog to a specific page?
===EDIT===
Hmm... well I was hoping on it being for all operating systems, but if I had to choose one over the other it would be Win7.
So: How do I access a specific page in Windows Help in windows 7?
Based on different Windows versions, there are different Windows Help. For example, the help system on Windows 7 behaves very differently than the one on Windows XP.
MSDN offered a primitive starting point http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee663302%28v=VS.85%29.aspx. Maybe you can refine the question a bit more specific to get it resolved more quickly.

Windows 7 Jump-List (Windows Forms, C#)

Does anybody know how to customize the Windows Jump-List feature related to my own application in C#? I know it can be done, but I cannot find anything C#/Windows7 related on MSDN yet. The only info related to W7 and C# I can find so far is just compatibility junk which I've already read.
Thanks all
Baeltazor
You can do this with the Windows API Code Pack
There is a sample in Samples\Shell\TaskbarDemo\CS which shows you how to customise the Jump List and icon.

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