Which Version of Visual Studio Do I Need?

[sean.boyle77X79]

Hi,

I would like to upgrade my iLogic code to an Inventor Addin, but unfortunately I cannot install the SDK file (for Inventor 2023) unless I have Visual Studio 2019 installed (I have 2022 installed). The problem is that you cannot download VS 2019 Community anymore, and I don't want to download it from an archive website etc. as this is for work, not me personally.

My question is what version can I use for creating addins for Inventor 23? Can I simply use the Visual Studio I have, but use a different template, for example Brian Ekins Nifty template?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, 

Thanks

Sean

[Michael.Navara · Accepted solution]

You can use any version of VisualStudio. I use VS2022 and everything works well. The issue is just in SDK installer which requires VS2019.

You can use any template for Inventor AddIn you want. In the original template is nothing special. I try to start some projects on default template "Class library (.NET Framework)" and create all required files (StandardAddinServer.cs, InventorAddIn.addin) and add references (AutodeskInventorInterop.dll, stdole.dll) manually and everything works as expected.

Usually when I use template from SDK, I remove the original references and replace with my own, because i want to keep a copy of AutodeskInventorInterop.dll in my repo and use reference relative to my project file. 

[sean.boyle77X79]

Thanks Michael that's greatly appreciated

[Frederick_Law]

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9mztr9qs01gn?hl=en-ca&gl=CA

This can extract the SDK msi file.