Assembly name restrictions in .addin file

[spencer]

Hit a bit of a snag with a custom add-in, long story short the .dll file now resides in a folder than includes a '&' character in the name. The Add In Manager really seem to not like this, and fails to load.

What kind of format is it even supposed to be in/can I get around this?

As it stands, the .addin is about like this

<Assembly>C:\Share Location\Thing & Stuff\etc\misc\Addin.dll</Assembly>

Tried several attempts of replacing the '&' with '&amp', '#0x36', and combinations of quotes but haven't gotten anywhere

[bradeneuropeArthur]

Special characters are not allowed. And also spaces not

[spencer]

The previous location (That did work without an issue) the Assembly tag was pointing to did have spaces and '()' characters though

[chandra.shekar.g · Accepted solution]

@spencer,

Yes, "&" character is not recognizing in .addin file. But some other special character like "@" , "()",  Spaces are recognized. You can wish list at idea station using below link.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/idb-p/v1232/tab/most-recent

Thanks and regards,