Includes RhinoCommon and Grasshopper template wizards for Visual Studio on Windows and Mac.

1. As of this writing, update to Visual Studio for Mac 2022 v17.3 or later.
2. Download the latest .mpack release.
3. Launch Visual Studio for Mac.
4. Navigate to Visual Studio > Extensions...
5. Click on the Installed tab
6. Uninstall all previous versions of the RhinoCommon Plugin Support. If none are installed, you can ignore the next two steps (skip to step 9).
7. Quit and Restart Visual Studio for Mac.
8. Navigate to Visual Studio > Extensions... again.
9. Click Install from file... button in the lower-left corner.
10. Navigate to the mpack file you downloaded in step 1, then click Open.
11. Click Install. The plugin should install.
12. Quit and Restart Visual Studio for Mac.
13. Navigate to Visual Studio > Extensions.. > Installed tab. Verify that RhinoCommon Plugin Support is listed. If it's there, you have successfully installed the extension and you are DONE.

1. Download the latest .vsix release.
2. Close any instances of Visual Studio.
3. Double click the .vsix in File Explorer.
4. Run through the wizard to install the extension.
5. Start Visual Studio and create a new RhinoCommon or Grasshopper project.

1. Install the templates from nuget. This will show the list of all templates after a successful install.

   dotnet new -i Rhino.Templates

2. Create a new folder for your project:

   mkdir MyNewRhinoPlugin
   cd MyNewRhinoPlugin
   

3. Show options for the templates:

   dotnet new rhino --help
   dotnet new grasshopper --help
   

4. Create the project

   dotnet new rhino

5. Build your project

   dotnet build

1. Click the Run button in the upper left-hand corner of Visual Studio

Building this project requires the Addin Maker Extension. You can install this from within Visual Studio by navigating to Visual Studio > Extensions... > Gallery > Extension Development > AddinMaker. Click the Install button. Quit and relaunch Visual Studio for Mac.