Essential Information for Developers

How You Benefit

EDN is designed to help solve your mapping problems. It accomplishes this by offering the following benefits:

• Time Savings—Take advantage of developer tools that reduce the amount of coding you need to solve a variety of geospatially related problems.
• Modularity—EDN lets you build solutions based on ESRI's ArcGIS architecture. This architecture is divided into a number of logical libraries so that you can use and deliver only those libraries needed.
• Extensibility—Add geospatial functionality based on your unique requirements, whether it is a simple map or a complex analysis problem that involves data from several sources and changes being entered into the system by multiple end users.
• Scalability—With EDN, you can build single-user desktop applications, multiuser/multithreaded server applications, and everything in between.
• Standards Compliance—EDN offers support for multiple operating systems, database management systems, and development environments in addition to numerous geographic information system (GIS) and data standards.
• Compatibility—The latest versions of the core libraries provide full backward compatibility to previous releases of ArcGIS.
• Flexibility—EDN offers support for a variety of deployment platforms including desktop, server, mobile, and the Web.