XML Documentation for API

[thom-g]

Please provide a xml documentation for the Inventor API in future releases.

This would be very usefull when programming, especially because then IntelliSense would display all the property and method descriptions.

[dan_szymanski]

This idea has been implemented within Autodesk Inventor 2018.2. Special thanks to everyone who cast a vote for it.

[Anonymous]

I can't seem to find the XML documentation even though the idea has been marked as implemented. Can you help?

[Paul.Normand]

The API help location is a little bit obscure - in the top bar, click help and then choose Programming/API Help.

The help doc appears on top of the Inventor window.

There is also online help available here:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2019/ENU/?guid=GUID-36B1FFB5-5291-4532-8F11-90E912769B34

Hope that helps!

Best regards,

Paul

[thom-g]

@Anonymous: we still use Inventor 2017 (and the Inventor 2017 SDK), so I could not check if it's there.

@Paul.Normand: the XML documentation is a *.xml-file, which normally is generated when the *.dll-file is compiled.

Since this idea is marked as solved, we would expect to have this *.xml-file in the Inventor SDK.

Could you please check that?

more info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-guide/xmldoc/xml-documentation-comments

[Anonymous]

Thank you for your replies. I managed to find the file myself. It was at:

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2019\Bin\Public Assemblies\Autodesk.Inventor.Interop.xml

It works great with IntelliSense.