Last week I found out that one of our admin apps on the server was not installed currently. It is an app that is installed in ArcMap, and the reason it didn’t work is that ArcMap has been installed on “d:\programs files” instead of “c:\program files”. The msi depended on the location in c:\. I opened the solution to try to fix the installer. I found out that when you install ArcDesktop it adds an environment variable named “ARCGISHOME”. I also found out it is impossible to take a dll from a primary...
In my last post I described how to create extensions to ArcGis products. After we've finished developing to tools and commands we want to deploy them to our clients.In the development computer, the tools are registered to ArcMap when we compile the project. Now we want our clients to have access to the tools. So how do you do this ? There's a simple checklist of things you need to do in this ESRI article . Follow it and you will create a msi which you can deploy to your clients. Have fun
ESRI's desktop products can be extended by adding tools and command buttons integrally into the environment. This can be done by using VBA inside the products, or creating controls in .Net using the .Net ADF that's supplied with the product installation. In order to create a custom command/tool you need to install the desktop products, and the .Net SDK for them. After the installation, new templates are added to visual studio. To start creating the tool follow these steps : Open visual studio...