[Question] Debugging Docker with this workflow?

[MarkPieszak]

Hey @sesispla I was just wondering, so considering this is all in a solution together.

Is a Dev supposed to be running all of this within Docker (.NET Core app, Nginx) and debugging it that way? Let's say there were many other layers, micro-services, etc as well, that needed to be setup with Docker.

New-ish to the Docker world, just wondering how one goes about debugging and developing in this workflow. Thanks for any input :+1:

[sesispla]

Hello @MarkPieszak. First of all, sorry for the long delay in responding.

AFAIK you can now debug Docker container using Visual Studio 2017 and Docker support.

I am going to make an small improvement to make the current code to work again. Then I'll check if is possible to mix this solution with latest VS2017 Tooling bits.

[dmarlow]

I too am interested. I tried debugging and got a strange error in VS:

1>Target DockerCreateComposeVsGeneratedFiles:
1>  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\MSBuild\Sdks\Microsoft.Docker.Sdk\build\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Docker.Compose.targets(281,5): error : (Line: 5, Col: 12, Idx: 46) - (Line: 5, Col: 17, Idx: 51): Exception during deserialization
1>Done building target "DockerCreateComposeVsGeneratedFiles" in project "docker-compose.dcproj" -- FAILED.

I'm replacing the docker-compose.yml contents of the generated template that comes from VS.

[sesispla]

@dmarlow VS2017 docker-compose files are a bit tricky. No straight way to copy/paste them and make this solution to work in a fast way :).

Need to review it and prepare some sort of patch for VS2017+