Developing locally

For those of you who don’t know, each resource built in Visual Studio is able to be debugged. Some will require external installs for debugging to work fully. Let's review debugging in Visual Studio for those who are unfamiliar with it. Once you open Visual Studio and create a project, you will see a debug button and a debug file menu. One caveat is that you should make sure that you have the right startup project selected, as shown in the following screenshot:

This will give you the ability to set your code with breakpoints and see what is happening. For most web applications, you can test locally, as you normally would before you deploy. I generally tend to use Docker containers to run things locally, such as testing or adding a .NET Core App to Docker. There are also some emulators to help with local development. Let's start by installing Docker locally; I would make sure that you are running Hyper-V locally or Docker will install VirtualBox as the management resource...