Debug Application under VSCode and Docker–part 22

What I wanted is that people that have only a container application ( docker) and  VSCode ( not Visual Studio , nor .NET Core Framework) be able to debug the application and run it. That means, I no longer require to install .NET Core SDK on the local PC

Read a lot

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers#_devcontainerjson-reference

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dev-containers/tree/master/containers/dotnetcore-3.0

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers

Some important things :

  1. in the devcontainer.json put  “shutdownAction”: “stopContainer”
  2. Delete continuously the vscode image if something wrong

docker container prune -f

docker images “vs*”

docker image rm <id of the prev image>

Now I have all in place ( see commit https://github.com/ignatandrei/InfoValutar/commit/474698d33e20e1aa6fc9e2fd6f4c42ea73e50b03 )

A .devContainer folder with a DockerFile and devcontainer.json ( to construct the docker container)

A .vscode folder with launch.json , devcontainer.json, settings.json  – to run F5 into the container

All I need is to Launch VSCode, press Remote-Container : Open Folder in Container, goto Infovalutar folder that has the .sln. Then press F5 in VS Code  and voila!

Now, anywhere I go, I can launch VSCode and debug the application.

Infovalutar

And one hour passes...
(This is the result of 1 hour per day auto-challenge as a full cycle developer for an exchange rates application)
( You can see the sources at https://github.com/ignatandrei/InfoValutar/ )