topic Re: Runtime .Net Targeted Platforms (x86, 64, ARM, Any CPU) in .NET Maps SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/net-maps-sdk-questions/runtime-net-targeted-platforms-x86-64-arm-any-cpu/m-p/535340#M6551 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You will need to build and publish all 3 packages. This is because of the native code that it is built on.</P><P>The user would not have to choose from different packages - the correct one is automatically downloaded from the store.</P><P>The store already handles all this just fine - it's quite common actually (there are lots of native libraries now like SQLite, Bing Maps etc that all uses C++ and thus can't run as AnyCPU). Even the Visual Studio tool for creating the packages can create all 3 in one go. So they made it really easy.</P><P></P><P>It isn't impossible to accomplish AnyCPU (although it would require code changes from us), but it would involve deploying all 3 binaries in the app (which are fairly large each), so you will essentially triple the app size that customers are downloading - just so you didn't have to upload 3 packages.</P><P></P><P>You could of course just upload the x86 package - it would then be downloaded on x64, and the app wouldn't be available on ARM devices.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 22 Feb 2015 05:27:58 GMT dotMorten_esri 2015-02-22T05:27:58Z Runtime .Net Targeted Platforms (x86, 64, ARM, Any CPU) https://community.esri.com/t5/net-maps-sdk-questions/runtime-net-targeted-platforms-x86-64-arm-any-cpu/m-p/535339#M6550 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Will we have the ability to create libraries that are for any cpu rather than needing to create 3 different dlls for each platform (x86, 64 and ARM)? When deploying to Windows store it seems silly that we need 3 different products for a user to choose from.</P><P></P><P>If we have to create 3 different libraries, what are your thoughts on dealing with deployment to Windows store?</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:53:33 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/net-maps-sdk-questions/runtime-net-targeted-platforms-x86-64-arm-any-cpu/m-p/535339#M6550 JimFiddes 2015-02-20T14:53:33Z Re: Runtime .Net Targeted Platforms (x86, 64, ARM, Any CPU) https://community.esri.com/t5/net-maps-sdk-questions/runtime-net-targeted-platforms-x86-64-arm-any-cpu/m-p/535340#M6551 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>You will need to build and publish all 3 packages. This is because of the native code that it is built on.</P><P>The user would not have to choose from different packages - the correct one is automatically downloaded from the store.</P><P>The store already handles all this just fine - it's quite common actually (there are lots of native libraries now like SQLite, Bing Maps etc that all uses C++ and thus can't run as AnyCPU). Even the Visual Studio tool for creating the packages can create all 3 in one go. So they made it really easy.</P><P></P><P>It isn't impossible to accomplish AnyCPU (although it would require code changes from us), but it would involve deploying all 3 binaries in the app (which are fairly large each), so you will essentially triple the app size that customers are downloading - just so you didn't have to upload 3 packages.</P><P></P><P>You could of course just upload the x86 package - it would then be downloaded on x64, and the app wouldn't be available on ARM devices.</P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 22 Feb 2015 05:27:58 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/net-maps-sdk-questions/runtime-net-targeted-platforms-x86-64-arm-any-cpu/m-p/535340#M6551 dotMorten_esri 2015-02-22T05:27:58Z