The Visual Studio Code Remote Roadmap 2020 - DRAFT

This is the Roadmap for the VS Code Remote extensions. This page complements the VS Code roadmap 2020.

Legend of annotations:

Mark	Description
bullet	work not started
check mark	work completed
	on-going work
	stretch goal

Core

• Support to install an extension in a remote context without requiring to reload the window
• Support Windows ARM64 for the VS Code Server
• Provide better support for customizing the Reconnect dialog

SSH

• ✔️ Support servers running on macOS and Windows
• Investigate improved offline experience
• Investigate how to best support using dev containers on your SSH remote

WSL

• Support Reveal in Windows Explorer for files an folders shown in the explorer of the remote window
• Investigate improved offline experience
• Investigate how to best support using dev containers within WSL

Containers

• ✔️ Support for sharing of 'dotfiles'.
• Investigate running in a container without any devcontainer.json file.
• ✔️ Simplify adding an extension installed in the container to the devcontainer.json file.
• Support to launch a Remote - Container window from the CLI
• ✔️ Improve the experience when iterating on a Dockerfile or a devcontainer.json.
• ✔️ Augment devcontainer.json format to eliminate scenario blockers, e.g. buildArgs
• Improve performance of opening new containers with pre-built images

Explorations

• VS Code Remote support for Kubernetes