[THIN] Re: Developing TS-aware apps?

Thanks. This particular is C++. 

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> [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian Ehlert
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 3:25 PM
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> Subject: [THIN] Re: Developing TS-aware apps?
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> I have worked with a few developers over the years - helping 
> them to make their apps run under Citrix (WinFrame on up) and 
> the best piece of advice that you can try to drive home to 
> any developer is to use proper environment variable calls.
> 
> Machine level environment variables vs user level environment 
> variables.
> (which is appropriate to use where and when)
> 
> I have observed that it is very common for deadlines to cause 
> developers to hardcode paths to executables, rely on dll's to 
> be copied to system32, to use machine level variables where 
> they should be using user level variables (or no variables at 
> all).  All of which can cause potential headaches - 
> especially with temp files and the like.
> 
> Everything else generally depends on the development studio 
> that is used, or the language written in.
> 
> 
> On 4/28/06, Landin, Mark <Mark.Landin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We (well, I) am anticipating that one of our "serious" 
> home-grown apps 
> > is going to get hosted on our PS 4 Citrix servers here in 
> the future. 
> > A moderate rewrite of parts of the application is already 
> planned, but 
> > the developers have no background in writing TS-aware apps, and I'd 
> > like to point them to a few resources for them to get familiar with 
> > developing apps for that platform. Can any of you recommend 
> sources of 
> > information that would make sense to a developer about best 
> practices 
> > for developing software for a multi-user server environment?
> >
> >
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