12 • ArcGIS Engine Developer Guide
ARCGIS ENGINE CAPABILITIES
The capabilities of ArcGIS Engine are extensive. As an ArcGIS Engine devel-
oper, you can implement these and many other functions using its developer kit:
• Display a map with multiple map layers, such as roads, streams, and bound-
aries.
• Pan and zoom throughout a map.
• Identify features on a map.
• Search for and find features on a map.
• Display labels with text from field values.
• Draw images from aerial photography or satellite imagery.
• Draw graphic features, such as points, lines, circles, and polygons.
• Draw descriptive text.
• Select features along lines and inside boxes, areas, polygons, and circles.
• Select features within a specified distance of other features.
• Find and select features with a Structured Query Language (SQL) expression.
• Render features with thematic methods, such as value map, class breaks, and
dot density.
• Dynamically display real-time or time series data.
• Find locations on a map by geocoding addresses or street intersections.
• Transform the coordinate system of your map data.
• Perform geometric operations on shapes to create buffers; calculate differ-
ences; and find intersections, unions, or inverse intersections of shapes.
• Manipulate the shape or rotation of a map.
• Create and update geographic features and their attributes.
EDITING FEATURES
ArcGIS Engine developer kit enables you to build applications that create,
modify, and remove vector-shaped features in a geodatabase or shapefile. The
standard ArcGIS Engine Runtime is used to run applications that edit shapefiles
or the simple features of a personal geodatabase. However, leveraging the full
function of the enterprise geodatabase, the Geodatabase Update extension of the
ArcGIS Engine Runtime is required.
The items listed at right, if deployed, are
included in the standard ArcGIS Engine Runtime
functionality and would not require any of the
additional extensions.
A software authorization file controls the
availability of the various levels of ArcGIS Engine
Runtime functionality. For more details on
deploying and configuring the ArcGIS Engine
Runtime, refer to Chapter 5, ‘Licensing and
deployment’.
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