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Using the Dapr extension in Visual Studio

Using the Dapr extension in Visual Studio

- [Host] With the Dapr extension for Visual Studio, we can debug more effectively since that allows us to run all the applications specified in the manifest file and automatically attaches the debugger to their processes. So here in Visual Studio, let's select extensions and then manage extensions. And let's search for Dapr, and this is the extension. Let's click on install and we need to close Visual Studio. After we close Visual Studio, the installer will execute and then we can click on Modify. And I'm going to post the video here, and after a little while, the process is finished. So we're ready to restart Visual Studio. If we open the solution once again, we're going to see a new node here in the solution because we have the dapr.yaml in place. So it creates this node and we can actually right click on the yaml file and select debug, and then start a new instance. So let's do that. You can see that all the different applications specified and included in the yaml file are…

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