Dev Containers. What are they and why do you need them?

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Explains how Visual Studio Code + Docker + the Dev Containers extension creates reproducible environments: chooses from about 100 templates, layers roughly 1000+ features (SDKs, CLIs, shells), generates Docker images or Docker Compose (example: .NET 7 app plus a SQL Server service with port forwarding and postCreate setup), shows live debugging working, runs an ASP.NET site and a Jekyll blog, and launches a browser-based workspace via GitHub Codespaces so edits and previews work without local SDK installs.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:21Getting started
3. 2:53Understanding containers
4. 8:22Building the first container
5. 17:30Web application demo
6. 21:27SQL Server integration
7. 32:57GitHub Codespaces
8. 44:21Q&A and conclusion

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