We have an application deployed on a windows server. The application has a GUI that our business partners access by using Citrix Receiver. The way they access this GUI is by clicking an icon on Citrix Receiver Desktop App, which basically runs an exe file to give them this access. I am wondering if there is an alternative to Citrix so that users can still access the app in a similar way. We are not in a position to provide remote access to our app servers. Please advise and let me know if I need to provide any more details about this.
Answer out of my comment:
If the App is published by Citrix you need the Citrix Receiver / Citrix Workspace app. If you have a Citrix Virtual Desktop (VDI) you could configure on your Storefront the HTML5 option and launch it in the browser.
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Currently, I am trying to make my website support PWA. After implementing it, it works on the browser from the desktop where the button to install it is available on the address bar, but when I tested it on my mobile locally, somehow it won't prompt the "Add to home screen" popup.
Could the reason be that I run it locally, as it only uses the HTTP protocol? Or I missed something in order to set up for that popup specifically? My website is on Laravel 7.
Hope anyone could help enlighten me with this issue.
Thank you.
UPDATE: Solved it. Apparently by running the website locally with exposed public port using ngrok with HTTPS protocol, I am able to simulate how the app will behave on the mobile and the "Add to home screen" popup finally appeared.
PWAs by definition need HTTPS connections to be installed and run properly (as you said). On your development machine you are making use of the exception for "localhost". On your mobile device, you are not accessing the site locally as it is not hosted on the device itself.
We are planning to develop an application that will run as a windows service that reads a DB for entries on a timer interval basis. whenever an entry is found the service opens shows a popup in the system try, something like lync or ocs.
My question is whether it is possible to deploy the windows service and the popup application under citrix xen app?
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Yes you can do that, but you need to keep in mind how those popups will be consumed by a XenApp user. In particular how is the popup app going to get started?
If your users are using published desktops then you can put your popup app in the startup folder of your users so it will always launch and be running and everything will work fine. However if your users are running published apps then you should have the popup app published and get your users to run this published app.
I have a scenario where I have users accessing our company application either via Citrix or RDP.
The app needs to make a call from within the session to the client pc so it can open a browser for credit card entry.
This is all working okay as I'm using COM to make the call on Windows clients, however I'm not exactly sure how to approach this for Mac.
I believe a start might be able to use AppleScript to open the browser, but not sure on the best way to call the AppleScript. Should I create a C++ app written in xCode.
I'm new to any apple development, so any help or direction would be helpful.
If you have access to the shell on the remote Mac all you need to do to open Safari (or other default browser) is to execute open <URL>, for example:
open http://example.com
I am wondering if anyone has come up with a technique for sharing data from a desktop application. Back in the Developer Preview Microsoft had the ability to share a screenshot from the desktop. In the Consumer Preview this feature disappeared and in the Release Preview isn't there either. I presume that the plumbing to do this is somewhere in there but haven't been able to get anything to work.
You could probably make the desktop app an HTTP server and connect from the Metro one or simply write/read file(s) in a known folder under Documents.
I know that on the iPhone you can register a URL prefix such as myapp://blah which, when opened in safari, will open up your application.
Is there anything like this for Windows Phone 7?
Unfortunately not, applications can only be launched by the user from the application list or home screen. I suspect that the hooks are there in the operating system because the YouTube application is launched when attempting to view a video on the YouTube website from the browser and the user is prompted to install the app if they haven't already got it installed. But unfortunately, this approach isn't publicly available.
You may give Receive Push Notifications in an Application for Windows Phone http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff402556%28v=VS.92%29.aspx a try.