Open Bin Folder for Visual Studio 4 Mac

Author: Calvin Allen

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       cover_image: "VS4Mac-SuperClean.png"
       categories: ["vs4mac2022"]
       opened_date: "2023-04-19"
+    - name: "Open Bin Folder"
+      url: "https://github.com/CodingWithCalvin/vs4mac-openbinfolder"
+      description: A Visual Studio for Mac extension that adds a right-click context menu command that allows you to open the project's output directory (i.e, the 'bin' folder) in Finder. This uses the currently active solution/project configuration to determin WHICH output folder to navigate to."
+      cover_image: "VS4Mac-OpenBinFolder.png"
+      categories: ["vs4mac2022"]
+      opened_date: "2023-07-03"

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+---
+title: "Introducing the 'Open Bin Folder' Visual Studio - for Mac - extension!"
+date: "2023-07-03T20:02:48-04:00"
+categories: [dotnet, csharp, extensibility, vsmac]
+description: "I decided to port another of my Visual Studio (for Windows) extensions over to Visual Studio for Mac!"
+---
+
+Introducing the "Open Bin Folder" extension for Visual Studio for Mac! This one works exactly the same as its Visual Studio (for Windows) counter-part.
+
+Each project of your solution will have a new menu option in the right-click context menu, "Open Bin Folder". Clicking it will invoke Finder to the output directory for that project, based on your active configuration (Debug, Release, etc.)
+
+To install (for now, until I can get it listed), is to grab the `.mpack` file directly from the most recent release on GitHub, and install it using the "Install from file" command from the Extensions dialog from within Visual Studio for Mac.
+
+Feel free to check it out, and let me know if you have any suggestions for it - PRs accepted, too, if you’re into that sort of thing 😉.