Tag: Docker Toolbox

Working with Docker on Windows 10 Home

To play with Docker on Windows, we have 2 options:

  1. Docker for Windows: Docker for Windows requires that you’re running Windows Pro, Enterprise, or Education edition.
  2. Docker Toolbox: if you have Windows 10 Home, this is only one option for you. Because Microsoft doesn’t currently allow Hyper-V to be installed on Home editions.

Option #1 is perfect one but there’re many issues when you go with option #2. And the most issue you could face is “Visual Studio Container Tools requires Docker to be running before building, debugging or running a containerized project”

To solve this, you should go following steps:

  • Check if the Hardware Virtualization is Enabled.
  • Install Docker Toolbox which is not legacy and works fine with Virtualbox.
  • Run Visual Studio from inside Docker Quickstart Terminal. ( /c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Microsoft\ Visual\ Studio/2017/Community/Common7/IDE/devenv.exe C:\\PATH\\TO\\MY\\SOLUTION.sln)

Ref:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45869766/how-to-get-docker-toolbox-to-work-with-net-core-2-0-project

https://github.com/Microsoft/DockerTools/issues/42