Developing a .netcore console application

To prevent Visual Studio from debugging in Docker containers

Debugging in Docker containers provides a stable, production like environment for your application, but larger applications can take a long time to build into containers. To stop Visual Studio debugging in Docker containers see Prevent Visual Studio 2022 from debugging in Docker

To allow Visual Studio to debug in Docker containers

If you want to debug in Docker containers to see how your application will run in production

Enable Docker Desktop execution

To be able to start Docker Desktop on Windows your user id has to be in the docker-users local user group. To add your user to the group

• Open a command prompt as Administrator
• Get the username:

whoami

Add the user to the docker-users user group:

net localgroup docker-users "your-user-id" /ADD

Log out and log in into Windows for the change to take effect.

Enable WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) for better performance with Docker Desktop

If Docker Desktop recommends using WSL instead of Hyper-V and WSL is not installed on your computer

• Open an Administrator PowerShell window and execute

Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName $("VirtualMachinePlatform", "Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux")

Restart the computer for the change to take effect.

You may need to install and enable the WSL2 Linux kernel. See Step 4 – Download the Linux kernel update package for details. Don’t forget to activate the WSL2 kernel with

wsl --set-default-version 2