How to install .vsix extention file in Visual Studio on Mac?

Question

I just downloaded a VSIX file from the Visual Studio Gallery and i want install this extention (jQuery snippets) on Mac.

How to do this?

Solution 1

You can't because there's no Visual Studio on Mac OS. And if you're talking about Visual Studio Code then it's not compatible with the *.VSIX extensions because it's an entirely different product.

Solution 2

Just to update this with the current status, as things have changed in the last year.

VSC have (somewhat) support for vsix: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/extensions/publish-extension#_visual-studio-code-compatibility

And Microsoft is working on a Visual Studio for Mac: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/

Solution 3

There is now an extension for Mac VSCode in the Marketplace Install .VSIX

It can also be found on github

It allows installing VSIX extensions from the VS Code sidebar.

I'm not affiliated - but I've used it, and it works fine.

Comments

[Admin]

I don't know about the Pro or Enterprise versions, but Community version of Visual Studio for Mac does not appear to support .vsix files. There is an "Extension Manager..." in "Visual Studio Community" menu, and in lower left corner of Extension Manager window is "Install from file...", but I tried loading a .vsix file downloaded from internet, and it did not recognize it as a valid extension file.

[Admin]

If OP is still around, would be great if they'd accept the other answer to this question

[Admin]

One thing worth checking out is suffixing the file with .zip, as in my_extension.vsix --> my_extension.vsix.zip and then uncompressing the zip file. Check out the contents. One extension I was trying to setup had a bunch of dll files in it, which is a no starter for MacOS.

[Damian]

Microsoft products... Ok, my mistake. Thanks!

[pagep]

VS for Mac has been released

[Michael]

There is now Visual Studio for Mac

[ToolmakerSteve]

Regardless of the name, VS on Mac doesn't appear to support .vsix files - at least the Community version doesn't recognize a .vsix as a valid extension. Have not tried Pro or Enterprise on Mac. Also see Is 'Visual Studio for Mac' Really Visual Studio?.

[Evanion]

VS on Mac is basically a rebranded Xamarin studio

[jxramos]

Doesn't seem to be recognized for Visual Studio for Mac Community edition version 7.8.4. When I go to menu Visual Studio > Extensions... > Install from file... The file selector filter Extension packages doesn't display vsix files. And when I change the filter to All files selecting my DgmlPowerTools2017.vsix doesn't seem to have any effect.