DLL Recompilation With Inventor Open

[DonStauffer99]

I have several class library DLLs for Inventor. To test them after I make changes, I open Inventor and invoke methods via an iLogic rule. If there are errors, I change the source code and recompile, but if I don't first close Inventor, Visual Studio gives this error:

Could not copy "obj\Debug\Part Classes.dll" to "..\..\..\DLL\Part Classes.dll". Beginning retry 1 in 1000ms. The process cannot access the file '..\..\..\DLL\Part Classes.dll' because it is being used by another process. The file is locked by: "Autodesk® Inventor® 2018 (7344)"    Part Classes            

This error doesn't appear if I haven't used the DLL yet in this Inventor session.

I pretty much understand what this means, but I'm wondering if there's a way around it without closing Inventor, since loading it up again every time I want to test a change is time-consuming and tedious.

Does anyone know of a way to get around this?

[bradeneuropeArthur]

You only can start inventor with the debug of the application. you cannot do this with the inventor session open because also the dll files are loaded then in inventor.

I use the following method.

in the debug you can also start inventor.exe with the debug of the app.

it will also close again after debug and start again with debug.

you understand what I mean?

[DonStauffer99]

It sounds like it may be less tedious but not much faster.

[frederic.vandenplas]

Hi, i use an standalon exe for testing purposes, when finished i copy the code in my addin.

Then you can use the suggestion to start inventor from vb.net for debugging if something is wrong to run that function.

[bradeneuropeArthur]

I use VBA to test and after the test I put it in the vb.net add in. (when possible)

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