debugging a shell extension remotely in a virtual machine

Question

Hey guys,

I'm trying to remotely debug a shell extension on a VM-Ware Vista installation through Vistual Studio 2008 (host system is Vista as well). My problem is that the shell extension gets registered correctly, but is never called. When I copy the extension to my virtual system by hand and run it there, it works fine.

Is this maybe due to some security restrictions forbidding shell extensions being run from a shared folder??? Because the code base in the HKCR\CLSID\MY_GUID\InprocServer32 points to "file://.host/Shared Folders/.MyApp10112/myextension.exe"

Sebastian

Answer 1

I don't have an answer for you, but I have seen strange behavior with shared folders. Try the VMware community forums.