ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide

DEPLOYMENT
To successfully deploy custom applications to end user machines, ArcGIS Engine
Runtime will need to be installed, the custom application will need to be installed,
and ArcGIS Engine Runtime may need to be software authorized depending
on the current machine license configurations.
DEPLOYING ARCGIS ENGINE RUNTIME
The ArcGIS Engine Runtime must be installed on every end user machine to
which a custom application is deployed. This includes machines that may have
ArcGIS Desktop installed, where the custom application will initialize itself with
an ArcGIS Desktop license. As a purchaser of the ArcGIS Engine Developer Kit,
you can freely distribute ArcGIS Engine Runtime, either on a CD or within your
custom applications installation program. See Appendix D, ‘Installing ArcGIS
Engine Runtime on Windows, Solaris, and Linux’, for further details on installing
ArcGIS Engine Runtime.
The custom application is deployed to an end
user machine that does not have ArcGIS Engine
Runtime installed but has ArcGIS Desktop
installed. In this case ArcGIS Engine Runtime
must be installed on the machine, but the
custom application initializes itself with the
existing ArcGIS Desktop license.
DEPLOYING CUSTOM APPLICATIONS
The method used to create a setup for the custom application will have been
decided on at the beginning of the development project and will depend on your
organization, the end user requirements, and any previous experience you have of
creating setups. The custom setup may use Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
technology, may be a scripted setup or may simply be a batch file that is distributed
on a CD to the end user.
The following is an example of a batch file that installs both the ArcGIS Engine
Runtime and a custom application from setups on a CD, then launches the software
authorization wizard for the end user.
COPY PROTECTION AND SOFTWARE AUTHORIZATION FOR END
USERS
The final step in developing and deploying ArcGIS Engine applications is to
ensure that all client machines have the correct license configuration to support
your ArcGIS Engine application. This section details the various ways end users
and developers can “authorize” the ArcGIS Engine Runtime components on
client systems.
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