You can also run below script to update the python version and then install pip package manager and venv environments manager. So, ensure that python is installed by using python3 -version command. If you have Ubuntu-18.04 LTS installed in WSL, then it has the Python 3.8 already installed. If you have more questions about this client-server architecture in Visual Studio, you can refer this documentation page. Visual Studio Code Client Opened by Windows Not only this, but if you try to open any folder / file in this VS code instance, it would open a dialog from where you can select folders / files from the Linux file system as shown in below snapshot. But if you look at the status bar (bottom left corner), it would say WSL - ubuntu. This is the VS Code which you have installed on Windows.

Once this is done, an instance of Visual Studio code will open. WSL will use client installed on windows and server from the Linux to facilitate the development on Linux. So, the whole VS Code is divided into two parts – client and server. Linux Terminal – Instantiating VS Code ServerĪs you can see in above snapshot, it installs the VS Code Server component on WSL. for the first time, then this command may fetch some components from the web which are required to run VS code in WSL. Optionally you can also stay to the same path or you can navigate to Windows path mounted in Linux e.g. Then, navigate to any path on the Linux file system – which you want to open in Visual Studio code. Now, start the WSL prompt by running WSL command (and optionally providing the Linux distribution name in the command line). So, I assume we have all the ingredients required for this demo. Install Windows Terminal on windows sideĮven if you do not have installed these prerequisites, it should not take very long to install them now.Install Visual Studio Code on windows side.There are only two prerequisites mentioned below. But you can use similar steps to setup any framework and continue your development on Linux using WSL and Visual Studio Code. For the demo, we will try to setup Visual Studio Code for Python development. In this article, let’s have a look at how visual studio code can be used with WSL. It has nice plugins to support syntax highlighting and intellisense. You can work on almost any language / script using Visual Studio code. Visual Studio code has gained a lot of popularity recently as an IDE.

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