I was able to get on the phone with Esri technical support today. Not sure whom I spoke with but they said this was possible with the purchase of the Standard runtime license. Was that information incorrect?
My application will allow users to place items on a map to represent their data. Once they have done so I would like to export their data locations and as well as some attributes to different file formats so they can consume their data in other apps. I have been successful representing their data in dxf files and kml files, but I would like to provide them shapefiles as well.