Microsoft Visual Studio gets .NET Core debugging – on WSL2

Microsoft has pushed out an extension for Visual Studio 2019 that lets developers run and debug a .NET Core application on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2). The pre-release extension addresses what is now a common pattern for .NET Core developers: you use Windows to create and edit a web application or microservice, but …

[Pascal Monett]

How exactly is a 2-year-old test still relevant ?

.Net Core has been updated since, I'm sure, so it would be nice to refer to a test that is current.

Or does this mean that testing .Net Core is something that people don't bother with ? There appears to be some enthusiasm for this tech, so I would find that rather surprising.

[Hubert Cumberdale]

I can hear it...

...the stampede of people coming to this comments section to rant about the evils .NET and Micro$oft and "why would anybody want to ... something something ..." and "abomination ... something something ... " and excessively sized binary dependencies and how serious developers roll their own bits to form artisanal hexadecimals. Well, shall we assume we've done all that?

[Robert Grant]

Re: I can hear it...

You have such a lovely imagination. Don't lose it when you're older.

[Hubert Cumberdale]

Re: I can hear it...

Looks like I scared them away. Result. I also have a rock that keeps tigers away.