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Inventor Addins and Assembly Binding Redirect... Ew.

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For those of you brave souls who have ventured forth into the wild and wacky world of writing plugins for Autodesk Inventor, you may have run into some baffling issues while trying to use 3rd party packages, and I want to throw this out so that if any of you have this issue, you can benefit from me battling the bewilderment.  I'm currently writing a plugin for inventor using mostly FSharp. Yeah, you can do that, and yeah, it's totally amazing, like any use of FSharp. So in my fervor and masocistic need to never settle for the bare minimum, I decided it would be amazing to use the Elmish Model-View-Update style of doing things, using Elmish and Elmish.WPF for creating my user interface.  And.. it IS amazing, but ..  Well instead of being able to use the very latest and greatest available to us, since Inventor itself is still in the .NetFramework land instead of the new hotness of .Dotnet 6 and beyond, we have no choice but to use some funky work arounds when using...