Just to let you know, the domain registration for Citrix Blogger expires February 5, 2017. Since I no longer work at Citrix, it is time to drop the current domain name. Have not decided yet whether to create a new name to…
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Single Sign On with Linux VDA 1.1
Customers want things to be easier. A common request is to support Single Sign On (SSO). Instead of having to enter credentials more than once, SSO remembers the username and password. The SSO design is secure yet provides a better…
Linux VDA 1.1 Internationalization (UTF-8)
In the history of computing, one aspect that had eluded capture is a consistent encoding scheme. There have been many attempts to standardize a character encoding scheme, but each has had strong downsides until about 20 years ago. The invention of UTF-8…
Linux and Citrix
To start with, this is not an official statement from Citrix. Rather, this is a collection of observations over the length of time at Citrix. First thing to note is that in the history of Citrix, the company had respect…
Lights, Camera, Action! MobilePicture using the SDK
Taking pictures with mobile devices is common . The quality of the pictures might not be as good and it might not be always as easy to zoom, control the flash, or properly focus, but it does its job well enough in most…
Mobile WinForms Hello World
In the last post, it discussed how to create a simple Hello World example using WinForms. The example displays the words “Hello World” in the client area of the window and it calculates how big to make the text based…
Tagged with: mobile hello world, mobile sdk for Windows apps, mobility, Windows, WinForms
Posted in Citrix SDK, Mobile SDK for Windows Apps, XenApp, XenDesktop
Posted in Citrix SDK, Mobile SDK for Windows Apps, XenApp, XenDesktop
Simple WinForms Hello World Example
Not long ago, a member of the team thought it would be a good idea to show the simplest program possible using the Mobile SDK for Windows Apps. This was an excellent idea since “Hello World” is commonly used to…
Tagged with: hello world, mobile sdk for Windows apps, WinForms
Posted in Citrix Mobility Pack, Mobile SDK for Windows Apps, XenApp, XenDesktop
Posted in Citrix Mobility Pack, Mobile SDK for Windows Apps, XenApp, XenDesktop
WinForms Fonts on Mobile Devices
One of the problems with running Windows programs on a mobile device is that unless the program is aware of the higher DPI, it will show the text in a very small font. If it goes too far, the font…
Tagged with: DPI, Fonts, mobile sdk for Windows apps, XenApp, XenDesktop
Posted in Citrix Mobility Pack, Citrix SDK, Mobile SDK for Windows Apps, WinForms
Posted in Citrix Mobility Pack, Citrix SDK, Mobile SDK for Windows Apps, WinForms
Mobile Makeover – Before and After
Last week I wrote a few different posts about converting an existing WinForms app into a mobile application. What I forgot to do was show what my example application looked like before it was converted. This blog will make up…
Tagged with: Citrix, mobile, sdk
Posted in Citrix Mobility Pack, Citrix SDK, Mobile SDK for Windows Apps
Posted in Citrix Mobility Pack, Citrix SDK, Mobile SDK for Windows Apps
Citrix Mobile SDK for Windows Apps
In recent posts, I have been talking about the Mobile SDK for Windows Apps and how to change Windows programs to use it. The problem is that I have not recently covered what is included in the SDK and where…
Tagged with: Emulator, mobile device, Windows Apps
Posted in Citrix Mobility Pack, Citrix SDK, Mobile SDK for Windows Apps
Posted in Citrix Mobility Pack, Citrix SDK, Mobile SDK for Windows Apps
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