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Debugging .NET Core inside a Docker Container from Windows host - Error: Input connection was closed. Aborting the debug session.

See original GitHub issue

Environment data

dotnet --info output:

.NET Command Line Tools (2.0.0)

Product Information:
 Version:            2.0.0
 Commit SHA-1 hash:  cdcd1928c9

Runtime Environment:
 OS Name:     Windows
 OS Version:  10.0.15063
 OS Platform: Windows
 RID:         win10-x64
 Base Path:   C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk\2.0.0\

Microsoft .NET Core Shared Framework Host

  Version  : 2.0.0
  Build    : e8b8861ac7faf042c87a5c2f9f2d04c98b69f28d

VS Code version:

C# Extension version: 1.12.1

Docker for Windows version: Version 17.06.1-ce-win24 (13025)

Steps to reproduce

I have pushed a test repo to GitHub here - https://github.com/lewislabs/test_debug/ Clone this repo and follow the steps for running the app in the readme here

Expected behavior

The application starts up and the breakpoint is hit.

Actual behavior

I get the following output in the debug console and an error popup in VS Code.

Starting: "docker" exec -i test-debug /vsdbg/vsdbg --interpreter=vscode
-> (C) {"command":"initialize","arguments":{"clientID":"vscode","adapterID":"coreclr","pathFormat":"path","linesStartAt1":true,"columnsStartAt1":true,"supportsVariableType":true,"supportsVariablePaging":true,"supportsRunInTerminalRequest":true},"type":"request","seq":1}
Error from pipe program 'docker': Error: Input connection was closed. Aborting the debug session.
<- (ERROR) {"request_seq":2,"success":false,"command":"launch","message":"The pipe program 'docker' exited unexpectedly with code 0.","body":{"error":{"id":1000,"format":"The pipe program 'docker' exited unexpectedly with code 0."}},"seq":1,"type":"response"}