Running Visual Studio Remote Debugger in Windows Container (Docker managed)

Question

I try to run the Visual Studio Remote Debugger in a Windows Container on Windows Server 2016 TP4. Since it runs inside a conta

Answer 1

I found this sequence to work:

PS C:\> start-service msvsmon150
PS C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 15.0\Common7\IDE\Remote Debugger\x64> .\msvsmon  /noauth /anyuser /silent

The start-Service command will fart out an error about how the service can not start when running in a Windows 10 hosted Windows container. However, after entering the second command, the ports show up as blocked in netstat -ab and Visual Studio 2017 can sniff the debugger unit.