Inventor 2020 SDK Developer Tools: Supported Visual Studio versions?

[DRoam]

We are looking into purchasing a license for Visual Studio Professional. It seems the only version year available for purchase from Microsoft is 2019.

What Visual Studio versions are supported by the Inventor 2020 SDK developer tools, and is Visual Studio Professional 2019 one of them?

[HideoYamada · Accepted solution]

Hello,

It is written in the file below.

file:///C:/Users/Public/Documents/Autodesk/Inventor%202020/SDK/SDK_Readme.htm

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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.

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I use VS 2019 Community and have no trouble with making add-ins.

DeveloperTools.msi don't recognize VS 2019, so you have to copy templates manually.

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 Hideo Yamada

[Frederick_Law]

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@HideoYamada wrote:

Hello,

I use VS 2019 Community and have no trouble with making add-ins.

DeveloperTools.msi don't recognize VS 2019, so you have to copy templates manually.

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It never worked with free VS version.

[HideoYamada]

Hello,

@Frederick_Law wrote:

It never worked with free VS version.

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Does this mean your VS Community didn't work properly to create AddIns?

(Or you have ever used VS Community to create AddIns?)

My VS 2019 Community works fine 🙂

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 Hideo Yamada

[Frederick_Law]

The SDK never worked in free VS.

Something with wizard.

I build addin before "Community", "Express" is the word.

[HideoYamada]

Hello,

Sometime the script in "Post-build event command line" has a trouble.

I use this script instead of the script set by the template.

call "%vsappiddir%..\..\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat"
call mt.exe -manifest "$(ProjectDir)$(TargetName).X.manifest" -outputresource:"$(TargetPath)";#2
XCopy "$(TargetPath)" "%AppData%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\$(TargetName)\" /Y /R
XCopy "$(ProjectDir)Autodesk.$(TargetName).Inventor.addin" "%AppData%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\$(TargetName)\" /Y /R   
rem If you create a localized version too, copy a resouce dll.
rem In the case below, copy the Japanese resource dll.
rem mkdir "%AppData%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\$(TargetName)\ja"
rem XCopy "$(TargetDir)ja" "%AppData%\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\$(TargetName)\ja\" /S /Y /R

And if your PC has no 'mt.exe', you have to prepare it.

(You will install the Windows SDK.)

Best regards,

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 Hideo Yamada

[akhid.rosyidi]

Hi @HideoYamada .

i try to install inventor developer with visual studio community 2019. but it can't works.

could not find any version of Microsoft Visual studio.

how you can install this developer sdk?

[HideoYamada]

Hello akhid,

I just tried to install SDK to the machine which was only installed Visual Studio 2019, and got a same result as you said.

You can install the files manually.

1) Extract the files from the installer.

Inventor 2017 Addin Templates 

2) Move the folder :

From : <Destination folder>\DeveloperTools

To : C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2020\SDK\

3) Move the file as following :

From : <Destination folder>\VS15.0_USRPRJTEMPL\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\*.zip

To : C:\Users\<UserName>\Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates\

Good luck!!

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 Hideo Yamada

[Anonymous]

Hi Mr. Yamada 

I did every step you mentioned but it doesn't work. Do you know another way?

[bradeneuropeArthur · Accepted solution]

take a look in your VS setting about the template location:

Tools>> Options>> Project and Solutions>>>

[HideoYamada]

Hi,

Please tell me what and when the trouble occurs in detail.

Have you compiled your program correctly?

Can you see your add-in at AddIn Manager?

Do you get an error message? When? Where?

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 Hideo Yamada

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Thank to @bradeneuropeArthur. I solved the issue.

thx for aking senpai

[Wenzel83]

Again the same problem with VS 2022 Community.

inventor 2022 has support to VS 2022 already?