Inventor First Run

[msabotto]

Is there a way to understand, from an Addin point of view, that the current account is lunching Inventor for the very first time?

I'm trying to understand if I could connect to this "state" and start a simple Wizard to help the user configuring Inventor.

Any idea please?

thanks

[msabotto]

really nothing to share on this topic?

thanks

[JelteDeJong]

The start class of your addin has a method called "Activate" (which implements "ApplicationAddInServer.Activate") That method has a parameter FirstTime. I think you can use that parameter for what you want.

[tobias_wiesendanger]

I think that wont help him because this just reports if the addin gets loaded the first time in the running session. This is false after reset ribbon as far as I remember.

But there is something that could help and thats the registry.

This is the startcount. In my case Inventor was started 172 times. Maybe this is 0 when you have a fresh install.

[msabotto]

Thanks for the suggestion, but as the documentation says, it is TRUE or FALSE depending on your Addin loading process and not Inventor.

If I well remember it could become TRUE again if you change the Addin FileVersion while evolving the addin itself (not completely sure).

Many Thanks 

[msabotto]

Cool suggestion, it is seems to be useful for what I'm trying to realize, many thanks for this tip.