My Little Buddy is a Windows95, Windows98 and WindowsNT v4.0 utility to try and make PC life with the Palm Computing platform even easier. My Little Buddy collects all the 'normal' applications (Pilot Desktop, Hotsync and Install) together in one place and adds a lot of additional functionality:

• An advanced installer that supports drag and drop, favourites, multiple users, multiple file installs, user attached notes and database association.
• File Installation direct from Explorer and other apps that support extension association such as WinZip.
• The ability to configure and use an alternate organiser (Outlook, Schedule Plus, Sidekick etc) on the MLB toolbar.
• A place for all your additional Pilot apps on the PC (CoPilot for example).
• Somewhere to keep all your favourite Pilot WWW sites together.
• Filetype association for .prc and .pdb files, so they can be auto-installed from Windows Explorer.
• Filetype association for .fpp (My Little Buddy Favourites) files so that multiple files can be auto-installed from Windows Explorer.
• The ability to add additional functionality to My Little Buddy in the form of AddOns.  This was originally conceived to be for data viewers or editors, but could be used for any functionality deemed to be missing from My Little Buddy.  Go to the AddOns page to see which addons are currently available.
• Support for multiple Pilot users, for all of you that sync up more han one Pilot from the same PC.
• My Little Buddy supports direct integration with BackupBuddyNG from Intelligent Systems and DeskAlarm from Bit Choreography.
  

Look at some of the features of My Little Buddy, by taking the My Little Buddy Tour.

For the propellor heads amongst you:

My Little Buddy is written in the 32-bit version of Visual Basic 4.   This was mainly to keep the size of the distributed files to a minimum and speed up.  MLB reads and writes to its own area of the registry and interfaces directly to the 3Com data files. 

The AddOns are again written in VB4.32 and are compiled as In-Process OLE servers.  I devised a clever method of being able to load and register the DLLs without the need to know what the server actually held internally is called.