I am a programmer and am looking for detailed instructions on how to
turn my program into a browser toolbar: a toolbar application that
can be installed into a browser like Internet Explorer.  My preference
would be for the instructions to be VB or Java specific, but I'll
pretty much accept anything.

Hi, 

Wow, that was a longer hunt than I expected. I didn't find anything
for VB or Java, but I did find a very extensive, blow by blow one for
Visual C++. After going through it, you might be able to translate to
VB (not sure about Java however as I'm not a Java programmer).

http://www.codeproject.com/atl/ietoolbartutorial.asp

Another interesting tutorial I found on the same site, which looks
like a "fast" solution

http://www.codeproject.com/wtl/toolband.asp
using the Windows Template Library (WTL)
http://www.codeproject.com/wtl/wtlinst.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=1BE1EB52-AA96-4685-99A5-4256737781C5&displaylang=en


And an article on the DeskBands
http://www.codeproject.com/atl/rbdeskband.asp 
which you might get some good hints out of. 


If you need something more, let me know using the Clarification Request button. 

thanks, 

webadept-ga

Excellent info.  Thanks very much!