If you prefer to control your settings in JSON then the setting to add is '': true Giving it a spin In the settings search bar type experimental WSL and tick the box to enable the option. In the command palette ( Ctrl + Shift + P by default) type user settings and hit Enter to load the user settings.

Get Visual Studio Code here and then make sure you have the Remote Extension Pack extension installed.įinally, the WSL integration is currently in experimental mode so it isn’t enabled by default. Next we need Visual Studio Code and the Remote Containers extension. Docker for Windows used to starts up a Linux VM to run the Docker daemon in, but there is now support for running the daemon in WSL2 - open settings and ensure that the WSL integration is turned on and enabled for any WSL distributions that you want to run your dev containers in. To run containers on Windows you would normally install Docker for Windows. This is currently only available via the Windows Insider program - see the docs for WSL 2 installation instructions. To get all of this working you need to have WSL 2. In this post I’ll walk through the various components that need to be configured to enable this. This is something that I’ve wanted to be able to do for a while and after some discussions with the Remote-Containers team (thanks Christof and Chuck!) they merged in a PR I opened that gives a starting point for this capability. While this has still been a great experience overall, I have hit a few edge cases where being able to have my source code in Linux (under WSL) and then create a dev container from there would have been a big help. Until very recently your source code needed to be cloned in Windows in order to be able to build and run dev containers with Visual Studio Code. In my previous post I gave some thoughts on using Visual Studio Code dev containers. I have updated the post to reflect this (update made in vscode dev container on stable release 😁). UPDATE (): With the 1.44 release of Visual Studio Code (and the corresponding Remote Containers release), the Insiders release is no longer needed as the.

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