ETO Series Studio is a Microsoft Visual Studio hosted development environment for the Inventor host in Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order Series, and offers an alternative to developing ETO applications directly in Inventor. ETO Series Studio includes in-host development tools such as Intent v3 language support to the Visual Studio IDE, an Intent Model browser, Design & Function navigators, ETO Model properties pane, and an ETO Console window. In addition, ETO Series Studio integrates Visual Studio Project support and templates for common tasks.