Add-In Wizard for Visual Studio 2008

[Anonymous]

Is there an installer for VS2008 availible somewhere? The one that comes with Inventor 2008 doesn't recognize the VS2008 installation. Message was edited by: project6

[Anonymous]

Sorry, we haven't created an installer that installs templates for use with
VS 2008.

As a workaround, you could manually copy the templates installed for VS2005
to the VS2008 location. I haven't tested this myself, but you could try it.

The .NET templates for VS2005 will be installed by the location specified by
this registry key:
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\UserProjectTemplatesLocation

You can copy the VBInventorAddIinTemplate.zip and
VCSInventorAddInTemplate.zip files from the above location to the
corresponding templates folder for VS2008 and see if it works.

-Venkatesh.

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Is there an installer for VS2008 availible somewhere? The one that comes
with Inventor 2008 doesn't recognize the VS2008 installation.

Message was edited by: project6

[Anonymous]

Venkatesh, thanks for your reply

I only have access to the Express edition of 2005, will the installer work with it?

Edit: I installed VS Express 2005, installed the wizards, and then copied over the files to VS2008 folder and it works.

However, I see there are no templates for C++ which is what I really need. Is there any way I can get a template file for a C++ add-in for Autodesk Inventor? Message was edited by: project6

[Anonymous]

For C++, I think it requires a little bit more work and a bit hesitant to
suggest copying template files because it might end up being a little
difficult to reverse it if things go wrong. But, since you have already
isntalled the wizard for VS 2005, hopefully copying only the template files
will work.

The templates are placed in subfolders of the folder specified by
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Setup\VC\ProductDir

Under the folder mentioned by the above registry key, you will find the
following:
VCAddClass (folder)
+ Inventor (folder)
inventor.vsdir
InvEvents.ico
InvEvents.vsz

vcprojects (folder)
InvAppWiz.ico
InvAppWiz.vsdir
InvAppWiz.vsz

You can copy the above mentioned files to the corresponding VS2008 folders.

I myself don't have VS 2008 and can't guarantee that it will work, so if
you're willing to take the risk to try it out, then you can give it a shot.

-Venkatesh.

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Venkatesh, thanks for your reply

I only have access to the Express edition of 2005, will the installer work
with it?

Edit: I installed VS Express 2005, installed the wizards, and then copied
over the files to VS2008 folder and it works.

However, I see there are no templates for C++ which is what I really need.
Is there any way I can get a template file for a C++ add-in for Autodesk
Inventor?

Message was edited by: project6