====== ThinkGeo UI Desktop Runtime Deployment Guide ======

If you need to publish a desktop application that was developed with ThinkGeo UI Desktop components, it's required to publish your application along with the Runtime License. Otherwise, a map will be rendered with "Not Licensed for Run Time". This guide demonstrate how to setup the runtime license. 

===== Get Runtime License =====

A Runtime License can be generated by “ThinkGeo Product Center” which can be found from your application's bin folder (The same folder of the compiled *.exe file). Please double click ThinkGeo.MapSuite.ProductCenter.exe and switch to ThinkGeo UI Desktop tab as indicated in the figure below.
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Click the Browse button on the right below RunTime License (The button is not available unless the product is activated) and select the application that you want to publish.
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A “Save As” dialog will pop up after the application is selected. Click the "Save" button to generate runtime license file(*.mapsuitelicense) on your disk.
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===== Deploying Applications =====
All the dependencies will be copied into the bin folder except for Visual C++ Redistributable from Microsoft (it's required for some of the features), which can be downloaded from the following link. 

  * [[https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=48145|Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019]]