Problems creating Inventor AddIn using VS 2017 Express

[Ralph]

Hello All,

in the past I've created several Inventor 2016 and AutoCad 2016 AddIns using VS Community 2015 on a Win 7 PC.

Now my company have updated PC's to Win 10 and Inventor to 2020. As I'm the only one who works with Visual Studio but company is not allowed to use VS community 2017 for free we have installed VS 2017 Express.

I've installed the Inventor AddIn to VS. All looks good, but when i create a new inventor project and immediately starts code analysis I get several warnings (e.g. "sign project with a key using a strong name" or "mark project CLSCompliant(true)"). So before starting programming and investing many hours I would ask if the constellation (VS 2017 express with Inventor 2020 AddIn Template) will work?

Thanks a lot in advance and kind regards

Ralph

[yan.gauthier · Accepted solution]

Hi, yes it will work.

Each version of VS add more code analysis. it's just to help you make more robust code. if it compiles, it works.

I work with VS 2019 and it will warn you if you did not test for null value before working with an object, it will warn if you use String function without specifying a CultureInfo, ... etc.

Take a minute to read the warning and see if you should take it in consideration. If it was working before, it should work now!

[Ralph]

Thanks a lot so I will invest some time