How do I get Visual Studio for Mac and Unity to work together?

So after Visual Studio for Mac was officially released out of beta, I wanted to give it a try for my Unity development. I installed it and configured Unity to use that as my editor however when I double click a script file, it just loads that file, no solution, references, or anything else.

Is there currently a way to get Visual Studio for Mac and Unity to work seamlessly together?

Apparently my version of Unity (5.6.0f3) did not support this integration. Since I could not find 5.6.1 (which was said to be the first version to support this integration) I instead decided to just use the current beta which does seem to work properly.

I am having the same problem.
i am running unity 5.6.3p2 and visual studio community 2017 for mac.