topic Re: ArcGIS Engine 10.0 Controls Example / Custom Tool registration in ArcObjects SDK Questions

ArcGIS Engine 10.0 Controls Example / Custom Tool registration

GlennNead — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:19:41 GMT

Greetings!

I am going through the ArcGIS Engine Controls example (C# version) in the ESRI Resource Center. All goes well until I attempt to build the Commands project, a custom tool. It attempts to write to the registry which fails due to lack of admin privileges. I thought with Version 10 you didn't need registry access. Is that true only for desktop add-ins? How/where does ESRIRegAsm come into play? Is ESRIRegAsm a custom tool that still accesses the windows registry?

Edit: Running with Windows XP SP3, Visual Studio 2010 set to framework 3.5.

Thanks in advance!

-- Glenn

Re: ArcGIS Engine 10.0 Controls Example / Custom Tool registration

AlexanderGray — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:45:36 GMT

Add-ins only don't use registry. ESRIRegAsm still does. ESRIRegAsm does the same things as regasm plus other things like registering the version and the product.

Re: ArcGIS Engine 10.0 Controls Example / Custom Tool registration

GlennNead — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:22:26 GMT

I was afraid of that, but thought I'd ask anyway. Now to convince the powers-that-be for admin privileges if I need to add tools.

Thanks for the prompt reply!

-- Glenn