Results for: Citrix WPF support
USB Thumb Drive is slow
I move around computers a lot. For work, life is easy, it's all on Citrix XenDesktop and the data is just ... "there". At home, I also have lots of computers but I gave up long ago declaring any of them "primary". All of my personal data lives on removable media, which I generally carry with me on a USB Thumb Drive or on SDCard, ...
How to Obtain an ICA file in Web Interface 5.4 using FireFox
During the troubleshooting of Web Interface 5.4 issues you may find a need to save an ICA file for review within a text editor. The following article details the steps necessary to save an ICA file via FireFox (version 8 used for this article): 1. Prior to launching the Web Interface website, change the FireFox Applications Options for the Citrix ICA Client to Notepad by navigating ...
XenDesktop vs The Pint Glass
Working in a lab and building those oh-so-clean systems is a nice way to work. Everything is generic, there are no GPOs we cannot change or systems we can't power off and most of all we get to control the use-cases for each and every technology in our toolbox. It's stress, and thought, free. We can demonstrate anything and always show it's the way forward ...
Announcing XenApp 6!
Announcing XenApp 6, the best on-demand application delivery solution! You probably have seen Harry's blog on this announcement giving a great overview of the effort involved in bringing this release to market. In addition to all the great features available today, XenApp 6 has the following new features and enhancements: Citrix Receiver The new Citrix Receiver for Windows supports eight languages with expanded support for plug-ins ...
WS08 Boosts Direct3D App Performance
If you have a Direct3D based application that consumes a lot of CPU running on Windows Server 2003, consider hosting it on XenApp 5 for Windows Server 2008. The reason? Under WS08, Direct3D apps can take advantage of graphics processing hardware on the server to do the graphics rendering. As a result, you'll likely find that you can provide better performance to your users and ...
Hosting Direct3D and WPF apps on XenApp
Can you run Direct3D apps on XenApp? What about WPF apps? Direct3D, part of Microsoft's DirectX API, is used to render 3D graphics in applications where high performance is required. Direct3D apps are not generally supported on XenApp because they require hardware acceleration. That's what kicked off the 3D acceleration technology being developed by Citrix under project Apollo. However, some Direct3D apps will fall back to ...
Silverlight 2.0 is on its way…
Scott Guthrie, a VP at Microsoft, recently blogged about a new release of Silverlight that will soon be ready for beta trial. Silverlight 1 introduced a new browser-based video player supporting a JavaScript/AJAX programming model. Silverlight 2 focuses on enabling the development of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). An important point about RIAs is that they aren't just for the Internet. Silverlight 2 will enable "rich desktop ...
Sneak peek – Multimedia virtualization at iForum Tech Lab
The Tech Lab is always one of the highlights of iForum. It provides a tremendous opportunity for customers, partners and industry analysts to speak directly with Citrix engineers who know the ins and outs of our technologies. This year, in support of the Citrix Multimedia Virtualization Initiative, we are planning to showcase a wide range of multimedia virtualization technologies, many of which are still baking ...
10 things you didn’t know about PS 4.5 Feature Pack 1
You might have already seen the announcement of Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 Feature Pack 1 and its big features (SmartAuditor, EasyCall, Simplified licensing etc). This article is to talk about improvements that have not been highlighted in our marketing message but do have high value for some customers and partners. 1. SecureICA (128-bit encryption) for x64 platform Our previous PS 64-bit release did not support this and ...
Citrix WPF support
I got questions about citrix support for WPF recently. After asking around, I got the following informaiton. In short current versions of presentation servers don support WPF based applicaions yet. We are working on adding such support soon. Stay tuned for more official announcements. Presentation Foundation (WPF), formerly code named Avalon, is the graphical subsystem of .NET Framework 3.0. WPF unifies numerous application services: user interface, 2D ...