Visual Studio doesn’t run natively on OS X, so my first step was to get Windows running on my MacBook Pro. (If you want an editor that does run natively, Xamarin Studio or Visual Studio. 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.
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?
2 Answers
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.
Visual Studio For Osx
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/