Powerful SFT handling capabilities for your own applications!

What is Lib-V?

Lib-V is a library component, written in C# language, that makes it possible for you to incorporate reading (decoding) and/or writing (encoding) capabilities of Microsoft App-V's SFT fileformat into any .NET based application.

This makes it possible utilizing application to have a full control over SoftGrid/App-V packages - not just plain-text metadata accessible within OSD, SPRJ and other associated package's files - creating instant added value to your application.

With Lib-V, you will be able to process, update and re-encode existing SoftGrid/App-V SFT files as well as create completely new ones from the scratch - with exact content suited to present need.

What can Lib-V do for me?

Lib-V can be used in several different scenarios involving software manufacturing and service delivery, including but not limited to:

Add true App-V support for your own products

While all the other files in App-V package are mostly plain-text, SFT fileformat is proprietary binary format that has complicated structure. Implementing complete and reliable support for both reading and writing this fileformat involves big development effort. Any software developer wishing to add full support for App-V packages in products such as package inspection tools, editors, packaging tools etc. will have instant benefit from being able to "drop-in" this functionality without lengthy development time.

Create in-house builder of App-V package

With Lib-V, software vendors can make or integrate into their own in-house packaging tools with capability to output SFT binary package. This package file can then be used along with other files making up App-V package to provide complete App-V enabled version of the vendor's own software. Unlike our SFT Encoder product, Lib-V offers raw access and possibility affect every possible bit of information inside SFT file.

Integrate App-V package handling to SaaS solutions

Organizations providing Software as a Service (SaaS) -based services to their customers - and which also involves App-V packages - can now add missing bits of functionality with ease. With Lib-V, services like making on-demand and automatically customized package versions available for download, is easy and fast to implement when compared to trying to drive existing auxiliary SFT capable products (e.g. Sequencer) which do not offer true programmatic access.