ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide

ARCGIS LICENSING OPTIONS
For more detailed descriptions of the features
provided by the ArcGIS Engine extensions, see
Chapter 1, ‘Introducing ArcGIS Engine’.
All editing of datasets is subject to the standard
editing restrictions in the core ESRI products.
Methods for leveraging multiple levels of
licensing in this manner are discussed in the
section, ‘License initialization’.
The extended ArcGIS Engine features and the extension runtime licenses that
can be used to initialize them are:
• Multiuser enterprise geodatabase—ArcGIS Engine Runtime with Geodatabase
Update extension or an ArcEditor or ArcInfo license.
• Visualization of data in 3D, GlobeControl, and SceneControl—ArcGIS
Engine Runtime with 3D extension or an ArcGIS Desktop (ArcView,
ArcEditor, or ArcInfo) license with the 3D Analyst extension.
• Creation and analysis of cell-based raster data—ArcGIS Engine Runtime with
Spatial extension or an ArcGIS Desktop (ArcView, ArcEditor, or ArcInfo)
license with the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst extension.
• Creation and management of network datasets and network-based spatial
analysis—ArcGIS Engine Runtime with the Network extension or an ArcGIS
Desktop (ArcView, ArcEditor, or ArcInfo) license with the ArcGIS Network
Analyst extension.
ArcGIS Engine Runtime with Network extension can:
• Create, update, and delete networks on shapefiles, SDC, and pGDB.
• Solve any network.
ArcGIS Engine Runtime with the Geodatabase Update and the Network extension
can:
• Create, update, and delete networks on shapefiles, SDC, pGDB, and GDB.
• Solve any network.
ARCGIS ENGINE AND ARCGIS DESKTOP LICENSING
One advantage of ArcGIS Engine mentioned in previous chapters is the fact that
it is the platform used for the ArcGIS Desktop applications. This allows for more
flexibility in the licensing of your application. In some cases, you may wish to
deploy an ArcGIS Engine-based application that can utilize either the core
ArcGIS Engine Runtime product and extension licenses or the equivalent ArcGIS
Desktop product and extension licenses.
The following table lists the ArcGIS Engine product or extension license and its
equivalent ArcGIS Desktop license.
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