Re: Windows Shell Extensions - Out of Proc

2009-04-25 Thread 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

Windows Shell Extensions - Out of Proc

2009-04-23 Thread Ralf
I'm trying to develop Windows Shell Extensions with the Python Win32 Extensions. Most of the samples are working. However, I have a slightly different need: I want the Python COM server to run as a separate process (LocalServer or OutOfProc). As I understand, both the InProc and LocalServer

Re: Windows Shell Extensions - Out of Proc

2009-04-23 Thread Thomas Heller
Ralf schrieb: I'm trying to develop Windows Shell Extensions with the Python Win32 Extensions. Most of the samples are working. However, I have a slightly different need: I want the Python COM server to run as a separate process (LocalServer or OutOfProc). As I understand, both the InProc

Re: Windows Shell Extensions - Out of Proc

2009-04-23 Thread Ralf
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,

Re: Windows Shell Extensions - Out of Proc

2009-04-23 Thread Thomas Heller
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