ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide

INSTALLING ARCGIS ENGINE RUNTIME ON WINDOWS
Later sections provide examples illustrating each
of these methods of installing the ArcGIS Engine
Runtime.
The later section, ‘Launching the ArcGIS Engine
Runtime installation within a batch file,’ illustrates
the usage of these commands.
If .NET Framework 1.1 is not detected on the
machine, the DotNetRuntime feature will not be
installed.
2. Launch the ArcGIS Engine Runtime setup at the end of an MSI-based setup,
within a batch file, or within a scripted setup.
If your application requires the Java Runtime or DotNetRuntime features of
the ArcGIS Engine Runtime, you will need to install them using the
ADDLOCAL Windows Installer command within your script. For example:
ADDLOCAL=DotNetRuntime
or
ADDLOCAL=JavaRuntime
If you choose to install only the DotNetRuntime or JavaRuntime feature, and
the core ArcGIS Engine Runtime (ArcEngine feature) does not exist on the
target machine, the setup will automatically install the ArcEngine feature as
well as the selected optional feature. Java is an optional installation feature
and is not installed with a typical ArcGIS Engine Runtime installation. The
.NET feature, on the other hand, is included in the typical install if the .NET
Framework is detected on the target machine.
Launching the ArcGIS Engine Runtime installation at the end of an MSI-based
setup
Launching the ArcGIS Engine Runtime installation program at the end of an
MSI-based setup is an example of installing the necessary ArcGIS Engine runtime
features without having your user perform the installation themselves directly
from the ESRI-provided ArcGIS Engine Runtime CD. The following example
illustrates this particular installation mechanism.
In example 1, the ArcGIS Engine Runtime setup launches once your end user
clicks Finish to complete the installation of your application. The MSI authoring
tools included with Wise for Windows Installer are used to add custom actions
behind the Finish button. This example assumes that the ArcGIS Engine
Runtime setup resides in the same location as your application’s setup program.
In this case, setup.exe resides in a folder named ArcEngine.
Example 1 (ArcGIS Engine Runtime 9.0 or 9.1 is required.)
Follow these steps to launch the setup.exe file for ArcGIS Engine Runtime
when it’s located in an ArcEngine folder on your application’s media:
1. Create Properties MSI_PATH and ArcEngineExists and initialize them to 1 in
the Property table.
2. Perform a system check for ArcGIS Engine Runtime at the beginning of your
setup program. The system check should search for the RealVersion registry
key and set the property ArcEngineExists to True if the registry value returned
is 9.0 (for applications built on 9.0) or 9.1 (for applications built on
9.1).
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\ESRI\ArcGIS Engine Runtime
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