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Actually the only difference in VS2017 Community and Professional is money. Microsoft changed it's licensing for VS software. The Community is almost Identical in functionality as Professional. I have yet to see a limitation that we would use. I think the only tool you get with Professional vs the Free version is the CodeLens Tool.
I spoke with Advanced Solutions(Our Autodesk Reseller) and they stated that we should be able to accomplish all of this with the free version. So we had a coding session today and accomplished all but the checkout with what's available with Inventor Vault Add-In. We already have a dll file we use for other functionality which we coded in VS 2017 and just added the checkout function to that dll. And now when we open an idw file it checks to see if the file is checked out, if not it checks it out. And the same for any model file that is referenced in the idw. Then the code checks to see if all the iproperties we require in the model exist and if they do not it creates them, then updates our rev level and clears out all the approvals so we can submit it for approvals in the automated system we are creating. Thanks for your help fella's, we appreciate the time that all of you took to help us with this question.