Inventor instance inside IWebServiceExtension

[hawas82]

Dears,

What I want to achieve:

I would like to modify Inventor's file properties just after Vault's state change has been done on that file.

It shall work from any Valut's client.

Thus I have created IWebServiceExtension which catches this state change and by Apprentice modifies file's properties.

Problem:

This works fine when state is changed in Vault Client but it doesn't work when it is done in Inventor's Vault add-in.

It is because apprentice is executed within Inventor process.

According to the discussion in apprentice-error-run-time-error-91

it is not possible to use Apprentice inside Inventor process.

Possible solution:

I could use current Inventor instance which has open file to change its properties but I don't know how to get Inventor instance inside IWebServiceExtension.

My code is executed in Inventor process but I can't figure out how to get Inventor.Application object.

I don't know if it is possible.

I would like to avoid to use Marshal.GetActiveObject("Inventor.Application") since in case there will be more than one Inventor instance opened i can get into troubles.

Any help would be appreciated.

Best regards,

Kamil