Why VSTO add-in for excel project not running on MAC machines

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I have created VSTO Add-in for Excel with MS-Excel 2013 template, It is working great on Windows machines but not running on MAC machines

I have developed my project with the help of C# technology. Can you guys help to run mine project on MAC machines?

What I have tried:

Is there any options while building the project

Posted 21-Jun-17 0:50am

Ramu Morla

Updated 21-Jun-17 0:57am

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Answer 1 · 2017-06-21T00:57:00

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C# and .NET is not - the only - problem here...
VSTO add-ins are based on COM technology, that does not exists on Mac - it is a Windows only thing...
So what can you do with it? Do HTML/CSS based Office add-ins...
Office Dev Center - Docs - Platform overview[^]

Posted 21-Jun-17 0:57am

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

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Ramu Morla 22-Jun-17 4:39am

Thank you for your suggestion @Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter but I have already done my project. Is there any approach to do this without moving from C#.

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 22-Jun-17 4:43am

No. As I told VSTO works with COM interfaces - something does not exist in MAC...