Introduction contrast, the project runtime actually runs your project, communicates with external databases and devices, and serves screens to project viewers. The full InduSoft Web Studio software for Windows includes both the project development environment and the project runtime. Your software license determines which parts of the software you can use on any given computer or device. For more information, see Execution Modes on page 26. In contrast, EmbeddedView and CEView are the runtime editions for Windows Embedded Standard and Windows Embedded Compact, respectively.
They cannot be used for project development, so they have lower system requirements than the full InduSoft Web Studio software. IoTView is a new, platform-agnostic runtime edition for other embedded devices. It has very low system requirements and somewhat limited features. In most cases, the first thing you should do is install the full InduSoft Web Studio software on your primary workstation, because it not only sets up the project development environment for you, it also unpacks the rest of the components so that they can be installed on other computers and devices.
Separate installers for some components can be found on the InduSoft Web Studio installation media or downloaded from our website ( www.indusoft.com ). Note: We recommend that you use Mobile Access instead of Secure Viewer or Web Thin Client whenever possible. Secure Viewer and Web Thin Client depend on legacy, Windows-only technologies, while Mobile Access allows you to use any HTML5-compatible browser running on any platform as a project viewer. Mobile Access does not yet support all of the features that Secure Viewer and Web Thin Client do, but we are continuing to improve Mobile Access with every new release. For more information, see Mobile Access .
Differences between the runtime editions You can develop projects once in the InduSoft Web Studio development environment and then run them on any of the runtime editions. This section describes the differences between the editions, so that you can decide which to use. Deploy a project to any runtime edition The following table shows the basic system requirements for each runtime edition. Page 12