{"id":2646,"date":"2017-07-31T02:01:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T06:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2017-07-31T11:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T15:39:45","slug":"the-application-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"The Application Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
<\/a><\/td>\nThe Application Book<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This is a book for packagers of all types.<\/p>\n

I find that even the most seasoned of packagers are fuzzy (at best) on what all that stuff that installers do is really for. So in our Master’s Level App-V Training classes I have been diving more and more into how application installers work and what they are trying to do.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

But there is only so much time I can give to this important subject when we have so much else to cover during the class.\u00a0 This winter I decided to take that material and separate it from the class.\u00a0 Diving in deeper than I ever did before, I set out with an ambitious goal – to map the various file and registry settings laid down by installers into the purpose for them being there.\u00a0 In essence, I am mapping them into the Windows APIs that those files\/settings are intended to use so that we can understand them.\u00a0 It is sort of a reverse engineering of the Windows API.<\/p>\n

And you know what?\u00a0 I learned a heck of a lot in writing the book.\u00a0 Well, actually, it was in the verification of my initial draft that I learned a surprising amount. Some things have changed in Windows over time, and on others what we all think we know turns out to be wrong.\u00a0 For a while I even planned to subtitle the book “Corrections to things we all thought we knew<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

The book is intended as a reference for anyone who (re)packages applications.\u00a0 And not just for App-V, but any kind of repackaging including MSI and Layering too.<\/p>\n

You won’t find the book on Amazon – they take 70% of my profit if I allowed it.\u00a0 You can find more about the book on the main TMurgent website here\u00a0https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/appv\/en\/resources\/books\/80-books\/415-the-app-book<\/a> and you’ll ultimately purchase it from our publisher at Lulu. If you go directly to their website there is a good chance the landing page will have a discount coupon you can use.<\/p>\n

PS: See what Bob Kelly has to say about the book here<\/a>. Bob left Itninja<\/em> and has a new site called AppDetails<\/em> that intends to be the new “AppDeploy<\/em>“, so you might want to check out while you are there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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