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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Summary

In this chapter, you've had an overview of Visual Studio Code and seen that it is a flexible editor with a rich ecosystem of extensions that provide support for a wide range of languages and add extra capabilities to the editor.

One extension in particular is Remote-WSL, which allows the editor to be split in two with the user interface portion running in Windows and other functionality running in WSL (including file access, language services, and the debugger).

This capability enables you to work seamlessly with the rich functionality of Visual Studio Code (including extensions) but with your source code and applications all running in WSL. In this way, you can take full advantage of the tools and libraries available for your WSL distro.

In the next chapter, we will explore another of the Visual Studio Code Remote extensions, this time looking at running services in containers to automate development environments and provide isolation of dependencies.

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