Windows Shell Extensions - Out of Proc

[Mark Hammond]

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