VS Community 2022 Template Setup

[Frederick_Law]

Some point in time VS Community changed how it handle Templates and I didn't get around to fix it.

After a few hours, finally I got this:

Hope it'll last.  Still got a few things to fix.

Any one got update Template?

[JelteDeJong]

I have not so much as a template but created a tutorial on how you can make an addin from scratch.

creating-an-inventor-addin, adding-icons-to-your-buttons and debugging-addins-without-restarting-Inventor

[Frederick_Law]

Cool.  Make it a Template so user don't need to create it from scratch every time.

[Michael.Navara]

I'm full-time developer for Autodesk products especially for Inventor. I have made dozens of add-ins. But I use almost default add-in template (just modified post-build events).

For Inventor add-ins I have made my own shared library (.dll file) with basic functionality for Inventor add-ins. This library contains tens of objects and thousands lines of code. When I start work on new add-in, I just add this library to the References like Inventor.Interop, stdole, etc.

It is better solution then copy source code to each project individually.

You can store source code in one place and if you want to update something, create new version of this library and just replace the reference in the add-in project.

[Frederick_Law]

I started with macro (IV9?) then convert them to addin.

Made a template so it's easier to start new projects.

Code was stolen collected from blogs (Mod the machine, I think) and forum.

I use VS Community so a few things doesn't work as the paid version.

ie SDK never install template properly.

Last time I updated my Template was 2014.  Making addin until IV2017.

Attached my Template.  Still need some clean up.

Let me know how to make it better.

[CattabianiI]

hi @JelteDeJong,
i'm very interested into debugging inventor without restarting it, but your website seems to have an issue. 

[JelteDeJong]

Some update went wrong. But the site is up again.

[w.pepping]

After 10 years and thousands of times restarting Inventor I have found a solution:  Testing your plug-in without restarting Inventor is possible!

Just rebuild your project in Visual Studio and your dll is reloaded automatically in Inventor.

I have made a tool that does this trick. (see picture). It will make developers' lives much easier.

I will soon share a video how it works.