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