2018 SDK Developertools

[JamieVJohnson2]

I thought Autodesk released a fix for the sdk not installing the developertools.msi.  I can't get it to install completely.  Same issue as the posted 2016 version, but the registry key changes did not stop the error.  Is there an alternate SDK download or a fix I'm missing?  I would like to get the add-in wizards to work.

Windows 10 Enterprise 1709, VS Pro 2017, Inventor Pro 2018

Thank you

[JaneFan]

Hi @JamieVJohnson2, 

I can install DeveloperTools on windows 10 OS successfully. Would you please provide more information about the failure you met? do you have administrator right in that computer and how about turning off the UAC? 

[JamieVJohnson2 · Accepted solution]

I do have full admin rights on this machine.  So thinking about that... The installer does NOT perform a UAC check before running, and this is the method by which window's elevates the user to Administrator.  How to work around without disabling UAC (mine is on, at level 3 'don't ask').  Ok I have an idea, open command prompt as Administrator, change directory to the C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2018\SDK folder then run "start developertools.msi".  This worked without the scripting error.

Thank you,

[JamieVJohnson2]

So for future *.msi, developers, if some sub portion of your install program needs administrative rights (say writes to program files or program data and the like), then go ahead and use the flag to request admin rights up front in your install package.  This will aid the UAC in properly switching modes on its own.

[JaneFan]

Glad to know that it is working now. And thanks for the advice.