A couple of days ago, I came across the Visual Studio Container Tools Extension (Preview) Announcement.
Using docker, this VS2019 extension promises to be very useful for container image development and debugging.
Here is my first run through, using the aspnetapp sample docker image.
Preparation
The extension can be installed directly via Visual Studio 2019, or downloaded from the marketplace, as shown below.
Once installed, you obviously need to have a running container to watch it in action. For my quick test, I’ve chosen the aspnetapp sample image from mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/samples:aspnetapp, for which I … more