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Autodesk's compatibility note for Inventor 2027 says existing .NET 8 add-ins should keep working without recompilation, and for most add-ins that's accurate. The exception is anything that calls AdWebServicesWrapper to talk to Autodesk's entitlement service — App Store validation in particular. The wrapper was renamed and retargeted to .NET 10 in 2027, so App Store-distributed add-ins do need a migration. Here's the conditional TFM / per-version reference / manifest-gate pattern I rolled out across 13 add-ins.
