
This is quite magic but wait, there is much more!įile access interacts nicely between the two OS. Once WSL2 installed, Ubuntu became a Windows application that you can start, pin in the Task panel or in the Taskbar. Also you can choose your preferred Linux distribution, Ubuntu, Suse, Debian… We followed the tutorial provided on the Ubuntu site and it was a matter of 10 minutes. I won’t go through the step-by-step install because it is already described well on various tutorials.

Let’s go through our experience with WSL. This possibility was really a productivity-boost to make our product run on Linux.

NET 5.0 program running on Linux/WSL2 from a Visual Studio 2019 session on Windows. But the real strength is the ability to debug a. It was surprisingly easy to install and use. WSL is now in version 2 and is mature enough to work with.

There are various options to run and debug a. NET 5.0 on Linux until it worked completely. NET 5.0 on Windows, it was time to debug the whole thing on. To achieve that, a major refactoring session has been achieved to isolate code that can compile and run upon. NDepend analysis, reporting, API and Power-Tools will run on Linux and MacOS with the next version 2021.2.
