Original User: gottralf
Based on the feedback that we have received from those participating on the beta forums and from the feedback we received through support incidents, we understand that many people are being impacted by this and require some help.
It is important for customers to recompile their application for each release because there are no guarantees that a component that worked for one release will continue to work in the next release.
However, we understand that people have been relying on this workflow in the past, and they have been lucky that the component still worked at the next version of the software. Because of the changes to the registration mechanism at 10 these components don�??t show up in an ArcGIS application anymore.
Natalie, you raise a really good point. You and probably many customers have initiated the migration, but you have a few components that have not been migrated for whatever reason. It could be political, resources, or time.
We will provide documentation that will describe how customers can register their legacy components with ArcGIS 10. Like you said, ESRI will not provide support for this workflow, so if it doesn�??t work you will not be able to call Technical Support. There will be no guarantees that this registration process will work, and no guarantees that the component will work in the new version.
I don�??t have specifics on when the instructions will be released or what form it will be in, but it will probably be a blog or a KB doc.
Thanks for your feedback.
