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Targets files to enable the Visual Studio Tools for Containers.
Last release 1 years ago
26 Sep 2025
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 3 months
Most releases are documented
notes for 28 of 40 stable releases
51 versions withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing
127 years old
91 releases · first in 1900
- Add support for Podman
- Fix image tagging issue
Fix issue with build property processing
One column per quarter.
Fix issue with dockerfile build context quoting
Fix drive sharing permission check during image build
Fix build image not producing a regular mode container
Fix build image not producing a regular mode container
Added support for setting the LAUNCHING_FROM_VS build arg when launching from VS
Fix regression in VisualStudioCredential and Hot Reload for VS < 17.10
Handle VS owning launching the container.
Handle VS owning launching the container.
Add support for Distroless / Chiseled containers (Requires Visual Studio 17.10+)
Fix tasks assembly version collisions
Fix tasks assembly version collisions
Add mapping for User Secrets with more project types
Add support for debugging AOT compiled projects in dotnet 8
Add support for debugging AOT compiled projects in dotnet 8
Docker image building now passes the configuration to the build via the build-arg BUILD_CONFIGURATION
Improve handling project names that use multi-byte Unicode characters
Fix bug in tracking volumes when restarting the container
Add support for profiling using the Visual Studio Profiler.
Add support for profiling using the Visual Studio Profiler.
Add support for the new .NET 8 port environment variables.
Update support for VisualStudioCredential to support more .NET versions (Requires Azure.Identity 1.9.0-beta.3+)
Update support for VisualStudioCredential to use container's .NET install
Support for VisualStudioCredential in a container
Minor fix for windows debugging on Nano
Remove ContainerTagImage and add the tagging to ContainerBuildAndLaunch
Support for SDK Style .NET Framework web projects.
Support for Worker Service project
Support for Worker Service project
Expand variables in launchSettings.json. Fixes issue
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Fixes an error while building a containerized application.
Improved Azure Functions Core tooling install experience.
Improved Azure Functions Core tooling install experience.
Fixes invalid assembly load failure.
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Fixes a VS hang while adding docker support to .NET Framework project.
Fixes a VS hang while adding docker support to .NET Framework project.
Support for Azure Functions .NET 6.0
Support for the .json version of StaticWebAssets
Fixes a bug in Azure Functions .NET 5 (Isolated)
Fixed a bug in handling static assets for .NET 6.0
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Add support for isolated Azure Functions (.NET5).
Add support for isolated Azure Functions (.NET5).
Fix an issue where docker pull used to fail during warmup if dockerfile had dockerfile ARGs.
Show custom MSBuild properties in the UI.
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Fix issue with inconsistent nuget package and tooling version
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Use dynamic ports instead of explicit ports.
Use dynamic ports instead of explicit ports.
Create the container with project name.
Support custom BaseIntermediateOutputPath .
Add support for scaffolding Azure Functions v3 projects.
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Adds support for Blazor ASP.NET Core web apps
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Adds support for Azure function container debugging.
Adds support for Azure function container debugging.
Also requires Visual Studio 16.3 Preview 2 or later.
Currently Linux containers only.
Updates to logic for determining if ports that Docker wants to map are already in use when debugging in VS.
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(Meta) Added Release Notes field to this NuGet package, linking to this document.
(Meta) Added Release Notes field to this NuGet package, linking to this document.
Change to FIPS-compliant version of SHA256.
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For ASP.NET Core apps, if the "UserSecretsId" MSBuild property is set, the appropriate user secrets folder will be volume mapped and available in the
Visual Studio Debugger (VSDBG) should be properly downloaded when using a system proxy.
Visual Studio Debugger (VSDBG) should be properly downloaded when using a system proxy.
Volume sharing sometimes stops working or credentials expire. Our tools do their best to detect this and provide a clear error message when possible.
In most cases the .dockerignore file will show as a linked item under the Dockerfile in Solution Explorer.
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