IV 2020 SDK install error - error installing DeveloperTools.msi

[Anonymous]

Hi,

everytime I try to install the DeveloperTools.msi from the SDK of Inventor 2020, I got this error:

"Could not find any version of Microsoft Visual Studio."

The UserTools.msi installs fine everytime.

The workstations are configured as follows:

- Windows 7 x64 Ultimate (german)

- Office 2010 Professional Plus (german)

- Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (german)

- Inventor 2020 Professional (german)

All components are fully updated.

Any hints???

Kind regards

[bradeneuropeArthur]

I think the following: "Actually, Inventor 2020 is built with Visual studio 2017" 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your opinion!

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@bradeneuropeArthur  schrieb:

I think the following: "Actually, Inventor 2020 is built with Visual studio 2017" 

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This means to me "Inventor 2020 is made with Visual Studio 2017" and this doesn't mean, that the SDK only supports Visual Studio 2017.

I'm sure Inventor 2019 was built (made) with Visual Studio 2015 or 2017 but the SDK also supports old versions of Visual Studio for instance Visual Studio 2010, like we still use.

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Please read something similar (but for older versions):

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/not-able-to-install-sdk/m-p/4671055?advanced=f...

and this for this version:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/can-t-install-sdk/m-p/8753228?advanced=false&c...

and this search:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?advanced=false&allow_punctuation=false&...

Seems to me to be the case that 2010 is not supported...

Regards,

[Anonymous]

Hello @Anonymous,

I am working in a german environment, as well, but that is not the problem.

It seems, that Autodesk is simply not maintaining the developertools.msi properly, so the installer does not recognise your VS Installation. Actually, the only INV SDK <-> VS combination that worked for me was INV2018 and VS2017.

Anyway, to get around this issue, you could run this command in an Command Prompt (as admin):

msiexec /a <PATH> /qb TARGETDIR=<PATH>

where the first <PATH> is C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2020\SDK\developertools.msi and the second <PATH> is the folder for the extracted files (you got to create this folder manually). For example .\SDK\developertools\.

After extracting follow the path to .\developertools\VS15.0_USRPRJTEMPL\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates. Here you will find this .zip-files:

Now, just copy those .zip-files to C:\Users\<USERNAME>\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates\ and you are done!

The zips are attached, as well.

Have fun 😉

[Anonymous]

Hi!

Many thanks for your very helpful answer!

Unfortunately we still use Visual Studio 2010 and not any newer version...

The developer tools from older versions of Inventor until and including 2019 recognize our Visual Studio 2010 installation and installs properly.

At the moment I'm in hollidays, so when I'm back in the office, I'll extract the "developertools.msi" as you have decribed and see if it contains templates for Visual Studio 2010 also.

🙂

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the feedback!

FYI: This is what I found in the SDK_Readme.htm, contained in the SDK-Directory.

"The Inventor wizards will be installed along with the DeveloperTools.msi. The wizards creates code templates that developers can use to quickly create applications that target the Inventor API. The templates are integrated into the Microsoft Visual Studio environment. Therefore, you can use the templates to create projects in VC++ (2013, 2015 and 2017), VB (2013, 2015 and 2017) and VC# (2013, 2015 and 2017). You need to have Microsoft Visual Studio installed first in order to be able to install the DeveloperTools.msi which includes wizards. "

So it seems that developertools.msi does not support VS2010, as well as VS2019 as of today.

(But the CMD-Line-Workaround of my previous post works [for INV2020/VS2019], thought.)

[Anonymous]

Hi!

Now I'm back at work and you're totally right: developertools.msi does not support VS2010 as it's written in the SDK_Readme.htm.

In german we have a saying: Wer lesen kann ist klar im Vorteil  😉

Or in english: who can read is clearly in the advantage  😉

So it's my fault...

Nevertheless extracting the .msi is a very useful tip!

Many thanks!

[jholland3XDLM]

I can not get the extraction to work. I am running on Inventor Pro 2019.4  If anyone has the zip files that I can paste into the Visual Studio 2019 folder I would appreciate it. As I see it my only other option is to remove Visual Studio 2019 and install the 2017 version.