Deadlock When Debugging ASP.NET Core

[perspectivism]

• VSCode Version: 1.82.2
• Local OS Version: Windows 10 Pro 22H2
• Remote OS Version: mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:7.0
• Remote Extension/Connection Type: Containers/WSL

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Follow the tutorial for "ASP.NET Core in a container" (on a Windows machine with WSL2 as the Docker backend): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/containers/quickstart-aspnet-core
2. Attempt to debug the container
3. Notice that the debugger deadlocks and the application is never started

[perspectivism]

I figured out what's happening. Specifically, when the VSCode project is located within a directory containing non-ASCII characters, it results in a debugger deadlock. Here are the updated steps to reproduce:

1. Create a folder using Unicode characters, ex~ mkdir C:\Users\Ažb\src
2. Follow the tutorial for "ASP.NET Core in a container" using the folder created in step 1 (on a Windows machine with WSL2 as the Docker backend): https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/containers/quickstart-aspnet-core
3. Attempt to debug the container
4. Notice that the debugger deadlocks and the application is never started

[bwateratmsft]

This sounds like it's an issue with the C# debugger. Can you file an issue in their repo?

[perspectivism]

It does sound like an issue with the VSCode C# debugger, as I did not experience any Unicode issues with the same project opened in Visual Studio 2022.