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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

Troubleshooting tips and tricks


Here are a couple of tips and tricks regarding troubleshooting. Just some shortcuts that have helped me out a few times:

  • Launch the application from within a CMD.EXE entry point: One troubleshooting method is to have the application locally installed and launch the application from within a CMD.EXE entry point of an empty project. You can create an empty project by simply running Setup Capture and step through the wizard without altering your capturing environment at all. If you fail to launch the natively installed application by using this empty package’s CMD.EXE entry point, this may indicate that ThinApp runtime can’t execute the application.

  • Move suspected files into the support folder: If the package crashes, it’s sometimes due to the fact that captured DLLs are not able to run on a certain operating system. One of the first things that I would try when facing this issue is to move the content of %SystemRoot% and %SystemSystem% into the support folder...