License your app

As you develop and test your application, you can access all of the capabilities of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for .NET without applying a license. Before you deploy your ArcGIS Maps SDK app into production, however, you are required to license it. Until you apply a production license:

• Any map view or scene view will be watermarked with the words "Licensed For Developer Use Only".
• A message will be written to the console or log that states that the app is "Licensed For Developer Use Only".
• When Local Server starts a message box will be displayed stating that "This application is licensed for developer use only".

License levels

Esri provides four license levels: Lite, Basic, Standard, and Advanced, as well as extension licenses for additional functionality. The license level required to use some parts of the API depend on which members of the ArcGIS Maps SDK types your app uses and, in some cases, the context in which they are used.

• For details about which API requires licensing (and the license level needed), see the License by API topic in the developer guide.

• For a high-level look at licensing and instructions for applying a license in your app, see the License developer guide topic.