Windows Shell Extensions - Out of Proc
Mark Hammond
skippy.hammond at gmail.com
Sat Apr 25 02:35:43 EDT 2009
Thomas Heller wrote:
> Ralf schrieb:
>>> I think that for whatever reasons, explorer always tries to create
>>> shell extensions as InProc. CoCreateInstance, which is the usual
>>> API to create COM instances, allows to specify which one you want.
>>>
>>> Thomas
>> So there is no way to do this, other than to create a "proxy" COM
>> object as InProc, which then forwards the requests to my COM object in
>> the separate process?
>
> Not that I know of - anyone else?
That's my understanding too (and probably for good reason - shell
extensions can be called lots!)
Mark
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