How to run Visual Studio Code with WSL

Install Visual Studio Code on Windows.

Then make sure we install Visual Studio Code extension Remote - WSL.

Optional step: Windows has a new terminal tool that is good to communicate with Linux running in WSL. Its main features include multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU accelerated text rendering engine, and custom themes, styles, and configurations. You can install it here or github.

From the WSL command line tool, in the source code folder, we can start Visual Studio Code using command Code .

And from Windows, we can edit and compile source code in WSL.