This japanese guy apparently wrote something similar to linux’s FUSE for Windows (supporting user-mode filesystem drivers) and created a number of bindings for it. As a practical example, he’s implemented SSHFS in windows, which is awesome IMHO and exactly what I’ve been looking for.
However, this means someone can now write a filesystem driver in Visual Basic. How awesomely crazy is that?
Go to his site to download SSHFS for Windows.
This is relevant to my interests too. I’ve tried sftpdrive, but unfortunately I’m one of does who get a large amount of explorer.exe crashes. It’s a known issue, but the people behind sftpdrive don’t know how to fix it. Hope this thing is more stable.