Developing Your Management Application

With all those formalities behind us, we’re now ready to begin the coding process. The techniques and logic are similar to what you read in the section for VI SDK 1.x. However, with a new object model and some new features, the departure from the previous version is significant enough to spend some time reviewing code samples for some of the popular operations you may perform.

In this section, we will look at some unique tools VMware has provided to assist with SDK development, as well as more deeply explore the operations and processes you will incorporate into your management application.

Managed Object Browser and Other Tools

Before beginning, we should introduce you to an invaluable tool that VMware has ...

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