You're reading from Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) Tips, Tricks, and Techniques Maximise productivity of your Windows 10 development machine with custom workflows and configurations

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562448

Length 246 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

Shell Scripting

Author (1):

Stuart Leeks

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction, Installation, and Configuration

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Windows Subsystem for Linux FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux

4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Windows Terminal

5. Section 2:Windows and Linux – A Winning Combination

6. Chapter 4: Windows to Linux Interoperability

7. Chapter 5: Linux to Windows Interoperability

8. Chapter 6: Getting More from Windows Terminal

9. Chapter 7: Working with Containers in WSL

10. Chapter 8: Working with WSL Distros

11. Section 3: Developing with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

12. Chapter 9: Visual Studio Code and WSL

13. Chapter 10: Visual Studio Code and Containers

14. Chapter 11: Productivity Tips with Command-Line Tools

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Chapter 9: Visual Studio Code and WSL

In the book so far, the focus has been on WSL and working with WSL directly. In this chapter, we will step up a level and start to look at how we can work on top of WSL when developing applications. In particular, in this chapter, we will explore Visual Studio Code, a free editor from Microsoft.

We have already seen how WSL interoperability allows us to access files in our WSL distros from Windows. Visual Studio Code allows us to go a step deeper by having the graphical editing experience in Windows connecting to the supporting editor services running inside our WSL distro. In this way, Visual Studio Code provides us with abilities such as a graphical debugging experience for Linux applications running inside WSL. This gives us the ability to work with tools and dependencies in WSL while keeping the rich Windows-based editing experience in Visual Studio Code.

In this chapter, we're going to cover the following main topics: