Addin loads when debugging in VS but not regularly

[basautomationservices]

Hi all,

I have a problem that I have not encountered before. I have an addin that will load and function when I'm debugging in Visual Studio, but it does not load when I'm not debugging. 

When running inventor regularly, the add-in does not load. When I check loaded in the add-in manager, it unloads again without any errors..

Any ideas?

TIA

[FINET_Laurent]

Hello @basautomationservices,

I've encountered this behaviour once. For my case , this was related to using incorrect references for my add-in project.

Basicaly I was developing the add-in on my computer with a certain Autodesk.Inventor.Interop version. 
When I deployed to other computers, it had the same effect. The issue was they didn't have the specific version of the Autodesk.Inventor.Interop dll I was using on MY computer. 

To fix it I just set all the references local copy to True, so any computer has it. This just paste the reference to your bin project so it always sticks to the add-in.

I recommand having a look at all the references of your project to see if they are set up correctly.

Kind regards,

FINET L.

[basautomationservices]

Hi @FINET_Laurent ,

I remembered a long time ago I had a problem because I was using multiple different versions of one single (of my own) DLL, this I checked.

What you're saying could be the problem, I've recently been switching between 2023/2024 versions.

Will have a look later to see if I can find it. 

Thanks for pointing me in this direction, will post the outcome here.