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I am trying to install Visual Studio Market Place extensions on Visual Studio for Mac but.

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  • Sorry forgot to mention on VS2017 for Mac Jun 29, 2017 at 12:28
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    @UnholySheep in all honesty, the accepted answer on the MSDN Forum isn't entirely correct. VS2017 for Mac does support Extensions, albeit not the ones from the conventional Visual Studio Marketplace.
    – Juliën
    Jun 29, 2017 at 12:43

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Visual Studio 2017 for Mac is actually a different beast from Visual Studio for Windows. As you may know, it is originally based on Xamarin Studio which on its turn is an extended form of MonoDevelop.

Simply put, the extensions you'll find in the Visual Studio Marketplace are not compatible with Visual Studio 2017 for Mac.

VS2017 for Mac does have its own marketplace, which is accessible from the Extension Manager. You can access it from inside the IDE through:
Visual Studio menu > Extensions

In the Extension Manager, you'll find a pretty small list of available extensions. But a neat trick is to look at the source of the repositories, which is simply the old MonoDevelop catalog http://addins.monodevelop.com/

Extension Manager in Visual Studio 2017 for Mac

Wrapping it up, you can add third party extension url's or install community packages through a file, but basically put there is not a lot more that you can get with the same experience and broad offering like the 'regular' Marketplace.

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  • how to install Angular5TemplateCore2 in VS2017 MAC? I cant find any extension for it?
    – ShaMoh
    Apr 9, 2018 at 7:44
  • I found that you can install many templates from the command line on VS Mac. dotnet new angular -o Angular.NETCore will get you the Angular template. I then delete the ClientApp directory and recreate it with the global Angular installed on my computer. ng new ClientApp --style=scss --routing
    – JSWilson
    Jan 21, 2019 at 22:20

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