Visual Basic .NET - Vault Check In / Check Out Ability?

[MattH_Work]

Is it possible (via a VB.net Inventor addin) to either Check OUT or Check IN the current Inventor document (lets presume that the User is loggen into Vault, and has all the relevant permissions)

Cheers

MattH

[Redmond.D]

You should be able to find the command names for check-in and check-out and use the Inventor API to invoke those commands.  However this will cause dialogs to pop up.  If you want to do things silently, then you need to use the Vault API to get your own connection to the vault server.  There is no way I know of to do a silent Vault operation through the Inventor API.

Doing a silent check-out isn't too hard, assuming you know the Vault API.  However the check-in operation is extremely hard, and I do not recommend it, even for expert developers.  There is a lot of data that needs to be set in a very specific way, so it's better if the provided check-in command does the work.