Hey, I am trying to install Rhino 7 into Visual Studio, but with every method I try, I get the same error message: This extension cannot be installed because the following references are missing: Microsoft Visual Studio Template Engine. [image] Does anyone have a solution to that? Thanks! Laur…

Solved it! For everyone having the same issue: Make sure you have .NET desktop development under Workloads for Visual Studio selected. [image]

Hi! i am getting this error message even though i have the NET package installed. It might be because i am using an M1 Apple Silicon Macbook? I cant get it working on macOS or on Parallels Win11 (i tried VS22 and V22preview 17.4.4 ) macOS nuget package says “Warning, may not be fully compatible w…

Hi, can someone please take a look at this? A lot of Rhino Users use Apple Silicon Macs now and this does not work still? [Screenshot 2023-04-03 133619]

Hi @tolomeo , This thread is marked as solved so it may be not many people are reading your follow up posts. I’d start a new thread and cross-ref to this one to get better exposure. Regards Jeremy

Hi @tolomeo , The Visual Studio extensions found here work well on both Windows and Mac. [image] Release 7.21.0 · mcneel/RhinoVisualStudioExtensions This release adds Visual Studio for Mac 2022 (17.3 or higher) support. – Dale

Hi @Linus3 , Have you seen this? https://developer.rhino3d.com/guides/rhinocommon/installing-tools-windows/ – Dale

Hi Dale! Yes I went through that but already had visual studio installed. Still getting the error, don’t know what else to do but maybe uninstall visual studio and try again.

[image] Linus: Still getting the error What error? – Dale

Og sorry, thought that was obvious. Microsoft Visual Studio template engine, it says the reference is missing when I’m installing the Rhino vsix

VSIX Installer fails: Microsoft Visual Studio Template Engine

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Linus3 (Linus) October 19, 2025, 8:23pm 8

This still doesn’t work for me. Can you help maybe?
The Visual studio extension development doesn’t show up at all for me under the right hand side under Installation details:
I’ve been searchin mnually like crazy.

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