Visual Studio Code has emerged as the go-to remote development tool in many areas far outside the Microsoft-centric developer ecosystem.

Amazon Web Services offers up a remote development setup for Visual Studio Code developers that involves an SSH connection to leverage the AWS Cloud9 IDE and other functionality.

Remote - SSH: Provides connection to a remote machine (or virtual machine) using SSH. Once connected to a remote location, the developer can interact with files and folders on the remote filesystem.

While the Remote Extensions already enabled to code "remotely" using a local VS Code frontend, that requires dealing with SSH or HTTPS configuration, which admittedly is not entirely desirable.

November 2022 release of the code editor previews a remote tunneling capability that allows developers to securely connect to their VS Code machine from any device anywhere.

You can run VS Code on Windows, macOS, and of course on a Raspberry Pi. One of the extensions that helps here is the Remote SSH extension, part of a pack of remote development extensions.

Remote debugging in Visual Studio allows you to step through code, set breakpoints, review objects, inspect the stack, and catch errors on a remote server just as if you were running the code locally.

At Build 2019, Microsoft previewed new Visual Studio features for remote work, unveiled the .NET roadmap, and launched ML.NET 1.0.

Learn how to mount remote directories with the help of a more secure SSH tool. Follow along with Jack Wallen in our step-by-step tutorial.