Visual Studio Code Remote Development Setup

by pgurnig

Instructions for setting up VS Code to remote to a Linux server.

In my case, it’s Amazon Linux 2 running .net core. In Linux, at the command line, I created a project using:

dotnet new web --name Employee

Then on VS Code (running in Azure), connect to the Amazon Linux instance by:

  1. Install the Extension Pack Remote-SSH.
  2. Verify that you can ssh to the remote server using Powershell or GitBash (or another tool of choice).
  3. In the leftmost pane of Visual Studio Code, click on the Remote Explorer icon.
  4. In the SSH Targets explorer, click the Configure icon. (It looks like a gear.)
  5. In the middle of Visual Studio Code, you’ll see a prompt with several possible files. Choose whichever you prefer.
  6. Fill in the values for your setup similar to the following:
  1. In VS Code now, near the bottom left, you should see “SSH:Hostname” where Hostname is the name of the Host in config. Navigate to the desired folder to open your project.