Unable to download Git plugin from Visual Studio 2015 - visual-studio-cordova

Question

I am trying to download GIT plugin via URL : https://github.com/OSAMES/ionic-Select-Control.git
in Visual Studio 2015 (update 2 ) I opened config.xml (in designer), then in Plugins section, I clicked on Custom and selected Git option. Entered above URL and clicked Arrow button.
However, it is giving error as "Plugin download failed from URL: https://github.com/OSAMES/ionic-Select-Control.git"
The URL works in browser.
Any idea? There can't be proxy issue with VS 2015 update 2 as I was able to download another plugin yesterday.
Thank you

Answer 1

I just tested at the moment and I have not encountered any problem with bower install ionic-select-control --save
Have you made a npm init before launch bower ?
In fact this plugins is for Ionic not for Cordova and need also angularjs.
I do not think it is possible to adapt to Cordova.
The only solution would be to develop a specific plugin for Cordova.
Edit: I test on new Cordova project in vs2015U2. My solution if you not use command line is to edit bower.json, add ionic-select-control dependencies
and after in solution explorer, right click on dependencies and click restore packages in menu.
VisualStudio 2015 request npm.org to fill intelisence for auto completing and find packages names

Answer 2

You can install it by ID, like ionic-select-control.
But it is not a Cordova plugin, so just install it with bower. This window is for installing Cordova plugins only.

Answer 3

I was able to resolve this by adding .bowerrcc file to my solution. The file was added and edited to have proxy configuration. For example:
{
"directory": "www/lib",
"registry": "http://bower.herokuapp.com",
"proxy" : "http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8080",
"https-proxy" : "http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8080",
"strict-ssl" : false
}