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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

The Package.ini file


Package.ini, found in the root of the project folder, is the project wide settings file. Here you can apply configuration changes that will be applied to the whole project. Many parameters are prepopulated in Package.ini. Some are default ThinApp values and some are from your choices made during Setup Capture. I prefer to change very few of the defaults in Setup Capture. I'd rather change my project settings within the Package.ini file directly. There are quite a few Package.ini parameters you can use, though not all of them are listed in Package.ini by default. I will explain the parameters that are included by default. A complete list of Package .ini parameters are found in References of this book. Package.ini is structured in different sections. [BuildOptions] is the section where you'll find most of the parameters. This section's parameters will be applied project wide, that is, to all of your entry points within the project. [FileList], [Compression], and [Isolation...