Containerizing Windows application

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I am having a windows application which I want to containerize. Its a windows desktop application (not web application). I did some searching and found very little about containerizing desktop application. The application which I want to containerize works fine on WindowsServerCore. I have Windowsservercore image on my machine.

I want to know how can I go about containerizing it. Any documentation or useful videos are available?

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HI,
May be this search helps: modernizing legacy windows apps with containers

https://www.google.at/search?q=modernizing+legacy+windows+apps+with+containers&client=firefox-b&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:y&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj24p2exujVAhWLOxQKHZ6qBGsQpwUIIA&biw=1293&bih=664

just a hint

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Be aware that Windows Containers does not include the GUI. I understood it when I was trying to create a container for IE. Web Apps can easily be put as container as it interacts over a protocol.

If you need GUI to be available inside the container, you might have to wait until this is supported.

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Thanks for the reply. I know the GUI is not included. My application has a GUI and background processes. If I could get background processes to run inside Docker it would be great.
Also, I came across with this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qlLUf7KtAw&t=272s&list=PLA6M-BY-wb05nMDWDEZcNH4UB0LDpCzoh&index=24 where Jessie Frazelle showed many applications she managed to containerize and one of them was visual studio. That got me thinking why can’t I containerize my application.