VMworld 2009: ThinApp upcoming features
Today I went to a session about upcoming features for ThinApp. Some interesting features were shown and I will discuss those in this post:
Protocol Handlers:
Protocols are things like http: and mailto:
ThinApp recognizes protocols during capture and includes information in package.ini
Example for Outlook 2007
Protocols=feed;feeds;mailto;Outlook.URL.feed;Outlook.URL.mailto;
Outlook.URL.stssync;Outlook.URL.webcal;outlookfeed;outlookfeeds;
stssync;webcal;webcals
When applications are registered on a desktop via thinreg or .msiwrapper, protocols will be registered.
New management SDK:
- Open thinApp package files
- Query registry key values
- Open file version information from internal EXE files
- Obtain a list of files, sizes and attributes
VMware ThinApp autopackager:
The autopackager was really cool. It can automatically create ThinApp packages of a bunch of applications. What it does is:
- Startup VM’s on ESX
- Takes snapshot
- Package software
- Copy Project-folder
It packages multiple applications simultaneously (depending on the number of VM’s) and the demo showed 13 applications ThinApped in 30 minutes (including Office 2003, which took the longest).
Windows 7 support will probably in the beta release coming this November. GA will be Q1 2009.
What was also pretty cool was the fact that Thinstall-helper was mentioned during the presentation. I once worked on a ThinApp project together with the developer of Thinstallhelper. The funny thing was that in the presentation it was called ThinApphelper, including a screenshot.
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