Installing Inventor 2012 Pro and Inventor Publisher on Windows 8

Want to see this?

Go to the setup folder and open this file (using Notepad):

In the file find (CTRL + F):

#============= DOTNET Begin ===============

Under it you will see:

Copy it and paste it here:

Save the file (CTRL+S) and your done.
(Doing this may or may not violate various agreements you have made or will make with Autodesk of which I may have just taught you how to do but do not endorse).

You should already have .NET installed with Windows 8 by default, so no harm done.  This should also work for other Autodesk products.