I’ve put together a nice High-Res video set for YouTube showing the basics of ThinApp. Grasping the steps required to package and virtualise an application is fairly straight forward, the complexity arises when factoring multiple entry points, user and application data rediction and a whole host of features ThinApp has to cope with.

To help get over this complexity I’m putting a decision framework together which I hope to be in a position to publish in some form in the near future (it may be high level but certainly will provide a starting point for those of you out there venturing into this exciting world)

For now though, sit back, relax, choose your own music (sorry, no commentary from me either) and watch through the realtime procedure of virtualising Firefox 3.5 and Adobe Flash Player 10 with VMware ThinApp

Videos 2, 3 and 4 demonstrate the capture process again for Firefox 3.6 & 4.0 (Beta 7) but also include the AppLink functionality – this is where ThinApp really get exciting!

Take your favourite application and virtualise it, your application may include many third party components – so once built, what if you need to update that component due a security patch, revirtualise the entire application? No – AppLink!

Virtualise the main application and the third party supporting application separately – and allow access to the supporting application via AppLink – so think along the lines of Microsoft Office with .NET Framework; Firefox with Flash Player – the possibilities are literally endless!

Coming up next – ThinApp Converter!