ArcGIS Engine

ArcGIS Engine is a developer product for creating custom GIS desktop applications. ArcGIS Engine provides application programming interfaces (APIs) for COM, .NET, Java, and C++. These APIs not only include detailed documentation, but they also include a series of high-level visual components that make it easy for even the casual programmer to build an ArcGIS application.
ArcGIS Engine includes the core set of components from which ArcGIS Desktop products are built. With ArcGIS Engine you can build stand-alone applications or extend existing applications to provide focused spatial solutions to both GIS and non-GIS users.

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• ArcGIS Engine Developer Kit is a GIS development product that allows you to build custom ArcGIS applications from a variety of development environments. The key features of the ArcGIS Engine Developer Kit are Standard GIS Framework—ArcGIS Engine provides a standard framework for developing stand-alone GIS applications. ArcGIS Desktop (ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo) and ArcGIS Server are built from the same set of software objects.
• Cost-Effective Deployment—Stand-alone ArcGIS Engine applications only require ArcGIS Engine Runtime, making it easier to distribute a custom solution.
• GIS Software Component Library—ArcGIS Engine developers have access to a rich set of GIS software components and a set of visual controls that permit the use of many properties, events, and methods.
• Developer Controls—ArcGIS Engine provides a set of developer controls available in ActiveX, .NET, and Java that simplifies the programming model for including mapping functionality in your applications.
• Support for Standard Developer Languages and Computing Platforms—ArcGIS Engine supports a variety of developer languages including COM, .NET, Java, and C++. ArcGIS Engine applications can be run on Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms Learn more
  Developer Resources—ArcGIS Engine Developer Kit includes all the necessary developer resources to build a custom application. The ArcGIS Software Developer Kit (SDK) is the collection of diagrams, utilities, add-ins, samples, and documentation geared to help developers implement custom ArcGIS functionality.