Back when Symantec Workspace Virtualization 6.1 SP1 came out we introduced Registry Hive Mounting as a new feature. You can read about these changes in either the previous SDK guide about this or in a non-developer targeting article here on ...
Software Workspace Virtualization 6.1 Service Pack 1 brings one new feature, Partial Activate, a change to an existing feature, Patch, and an overhaul to where information regarding where information is stored in the registry for a layer.
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Software Workspace Virtualization 6.1 Service Pack 1 contains many things: Windows 7 Support, myriad bug fixes, and some performance improvements, but there are two changes that can adversely affect an existing setup if you custom software to manage your ...
The last set of new features to Software Virtual Solution 6.1 is Layer Visibility, which is called Layer Isolation by some, and Dependent Layers-layers that are required by other layers to work. Both of these two features work together in that a layer ...
Parts 2 and 3 of the SWV 6.1 SDK Guide covered the new layer management functions introduced in SWV 6.1. In this article I'm going to be covering the API that affect processes running from within a layer, namely Auto Run from Layer and ...
In the previous article I talked about Patching, which is the first half of the new Layer Management features of SWV, for Part 3 I'm finishing off Layer Management functions with Duplicating Layers and Sub-Layer Merging. At first glance you may ...
In Part 1 of the SWV 6.1 SDK Guide I covered how to use the same API for SVS and SWV and SVS functions that changed for SWV. Now with Part 2 I'll be talking about the first half of the new Layer Management API in SWV - Layer Patching to be ...
In SWV 6.1 (formerly SVS) several new useful features have been added. Like the SVS SDK documentation I wrote, this will mostly cover the usage of SWV 6.1 in .Net - C# to be specific - but this information will still be useful to unmanaged code ...
The last article in this SVS SDK series is going to cover something quite important for anyone wanting to create their own SVS tool, Enumerating Layers. While this is something that I should have posted in one of the first few articles, getting the list ...
As we near the end of the SDK documentation there are only a few more things to cover. While most of remaining functions fall into a specific category a few don't, so I' ll be spreading those that don't between parts eight ...