What developers should know about Microsoft's App-V virtualization?

Virtualization is one of the key technologies that changed the PC landscape and IT administration since the year 2000. Even though virtualization has most of its use in the administration and IT professional space herding servers, there are many faces of virtualization. For instance, there is application virtualization, which can also has its effect on the applications you write.

In the Windows world, Microsoft's App-V is one of the key application virtualization products on the market. But how does this affect for instance Win32 and .NET developers?

I'm currently sitting in a hotel room in London attending a Flexera event about InstallShield and Admin Studio. Thus it's good to learn that Flexera has written a nice white paper called "Application Virtualization: What Developers Should Know". This paper is available here after registration.

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