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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
Book Image

VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By: Peter Bjork

Overview of this book

VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. "VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials" shows you how to deploy ThinApp packages in order to improve the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. Application virtualization improves the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. ThinApp eliminates application conflicts, reducing the need and cost of recoding and regression testing. In this book you will learn about how application virtualization works and how to deploy ThinApp packages. You will learn how to update and tweak ThinApp Projects before distribution. This book will then cover design and implementation considerations for future ThinApp projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

VB Scripting


When deploying an application using legacy methods, it is possible to customize the application upon installation. This is not possible with a ThinApp package because you can never actually install the application. You can simply execute the application. So for ThinApp to support customization of a package, there is a VBScript engine built into the runtime. Using VB Scripting built into your packages offers great flexibility. Virtually anything can be scripted. The VBScript can interact with both the virtual and the physical environment. Many times VBScripts are used to change the package upon launch, for example, reading the version of the operating system that the package is currently executing on, and changing the package content.

Many customers use VBScript for protection. If you do not have an Active Directory you can create your own logic as a VBScript file and if not fulfilled, this shuts down the package. You can add the VBScript functionality simply by copying your...