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Chapter 10: Creating Customized Virtual Applications

Creating Microsoft App-V Applications

file in the Open Transform wizard. The steps you take to generate an App-V application after using that

wizard are exactly the same as if you were editing a Windows Installer package in Direct Edit mode.

Converting a Windows Installer package with existing

package and one or more existing transform files, and you want to include these transforms in the App-V

application, you need to open one of the transforms in InstallShield (rather than the

Transform wizard will open, and you will be prompted to specify the root

files you want to include. The steps you take to generate an App-V application after using that wizard are

exactly the same as if you were editing a Windows Installer package in Direct Edit mode.

Windows Installer .msi package so that they can be accessed when the App-V application is built.

Creating Transforms

Applying Transforms

How Windows Services Are Integrated into an App-V Application

When you use the App-V Assistant to convert a Windows Installer package to an App-V application, references to

Windows services that are encountered are integrated into the App-V application. In a Windows Installer package,

a Windows service may be indicated by either an entry in its ServiceInstall table or by a Registry entry for

Windows services.

ServiceInstall

the ServiceInstall table, the App-V Assistant will convert that entry to a standard Registry entry for Windows

for Windows services (perhaps as the result of being repackaged), the App-V Assistant does not need to make

any changes to support the application's use of the Windows service within the virtual environment.

Start Up and Shut Down Sequences

If an App-V application has an associated Windows service, App-V will start up the Windows service first, in the

virtual environment, and then start up the App-V application. You will see the Windows service start up in the Task

Manager as a separate process, but App-V will be running the service within the virtual environment.

Upon shut down, App-V will first shut down the App-V application and then shut down the Windows service.

All of the transforms that you add to an App-V application must be located in the same folder as the

table—If a Windows Installer package's use of a Windows service is indicated by an entry in

entry—If a Windows Installer package's use of a Windows service is indicated by a Registry entry

transforms—If you have a Windows Installer

file and which of the existing

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