Question about Microsoft VB 2008 express

[karthur1]

Going thru the "My First Inventor Plug-in" tutorial and ran into an issue in Lesson2.  I am trying to add the "Autodesk.Inventor.Interop.dll" as a reference.

When I browse to the correct folder and add this, it shows in the browser as "The system cannot find the reference specified".

Of course, with this being the case, I can't proceed to the next step in the lesson.

Any ideas on how to get VB to find the reference path?

Thanks

[rjay75]

If it's missing from your references list you need to browse to the Inventor bin and select it. It may be in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 20xx\Bin or C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 20xx\Bin\Public Assemblies depending on your Inventor version.

[karthur1]

That is what I did.  I browsed to the C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2014\Bin\Public Assemblies folder and selected the "Autodesk.Inventor.Interop.dll" there.

[rjay75 · Accepted solution]

If you're looking for the interop then you will be using .NET. You will have to upgrade the version of visual studio you're using. 2014 uses a newer version of .NET then VS 2008 supports.

[karthur1]

Ok. thanks,  Will give that a shot.