HwndSource constructor fails with "The RPC server is unavailable"

Question

Recently the code creating a HwndSource is throwing an Exception in KernelBase.dll.
Visual Studio 2022 with all Exceptions turned on.

It has happend only recently, is 100% reproducable and does happen on Windows 10 and not on Windows 11.

Also tried other sample code from https://daniel-albuschat.blogspot.com/2011/05/using-net-and-wpf-in-win32-legacy.html which has the same problem.

System::Windows::Interop::HwndSourceParameters^ sourceParams = gcnew System::Windows::Interop::HwndSourceParameters ();  
 sourceParams->PositionX = x;  
 sourceParams->PositionY = y;  
 sourceParams->Height = height;  
 sourceParams->Width = width;  
 sourceParams->ParentWindow = System::IntPtr(this->parent_);  
 this->hwndSource_ = gcnew System::Windows::Interop::HwndSource(*sourceParams);  

Is this sth to worry about?

Answer 1

Hi,@Günther Humer . Welcome Microsoft Q&A.
This has nothing to do with your project.Nothing actually went wrong, the exception was caught and handled. Explorer implements counter-measures against bad shell extensions destabilizing it and automatically disables them. So you just have a lame-duck shell extension that doesn't work.
The debugger can tell you which one is bad. Enable unmanaged debugging and tick the Thrown checkboxes in the Debug + Exception dialog. The debugger will now stop when the exception is thrown. You won't see any source code but you can look at the Call Stack debugger window for hints. It displays the name of the DLL that contain the bad code somewhere on the stack, below the Windows DLL functions. The name ought to give you a hint which one is the troublemaker. SysInternals' AutoRuns utility is excellent to disable them.
You could also see if solution a and solution b helped you.

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Answer 2

It suddenly stopped from appearing.

Anyway I don't understand, what HWNDSOURCE and Wpf Interop has to do with Explorer?