Shannon Ma Virtualized

My latest side project at Citrix is the XenApp Publishing Extension, a tool that makes app publishing so simple your mom could probably do it.  It integrates with Windows, so you can right-click on any executable or shortcut to publish it.  The final bits, including the source code, are now available on CDN and can be downloaded from here.

I’ve included a video of the tool in action, which by the way was taken with GoView.  For those if you not familiar with GoView, it’s our all new service that allows you to create your own screen recordings and publish them online.  Think of Camtasia, except web-based and best of all totally free.  It’s pretty slick and I highly recommend trying it out if you ever need to make your own screen recordings.

Anyway, back to the XenApp Publishing Extension.  If you’re interested in taking a peek at the code, you’ll notice its 100% WPF based to create that “cool” look and feel.  It also uses MFCOM and the infamous DataModel-View-ViewModel pattern.  This makes pretty easy to maintain and test.

I’d also like to thank the following Citrites for their contributions:

• Chris Anthony and the User Experience team for the icon art.
• Thomas Hammond for the WPF wizard control.
• Vishnu Nath who came to me with the right-click app publishing idea.

Well, that’s all I have for today.  As always, I enjoy hearing feedback from anyone using my tools, especially if its saved you some gray hairs.  So feel free to post any questions or comments you have here.  Till next time!