Once you've opened the solution, there's one last step you need to take before you can run the application. Extract it to a folder and open the eShopOnWeb.sln file from Visual Studio for Mac (you should just be able to double-click on the solution file): Then to get the ZIP file just click Download ZIP. In either case, click on the Clone or download button on the repository's home page: You can access the eShopOnWeb sample code on your machine by either downloading it as a ZIP file or cloning it using git.