Adding remote project folders could be easier

[looeee]

I'm working in Windows with WSL. If I have a Vscode session open in WSL and I try to add the current folder as a Folder project it will give me something like this:

\\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\lewy\dev\projectFolder

However, if I use the dashboard to open this project it will open in a standard Windows VSCode session which is not what I want.

I need the URL to look like this:

vscode-remote://wsl+Ubuntu/home/lewy/dev/three.js

The only way I have found to add this URL is to create an SSH project and copy in the in vscode-remote://wsl+Ubuntu URL.

I have two suggestions for making this easier:

1. allow me to manually edit the path of a Folder project. At the moment if I try to edit the path it just takes me back to the Windows open folder menu. But if I could just hit edit and change the start of the path to ``vscode-remote...` it would make things easier.
2. Rename SSH Target to Remote Project since it's not only SSH folders that can be added here.

Beyond those it would be great to recognize when VSCode is open in a remote session and automatically prepend the correct data to the path. The Project Manager extension currently does this.

[Kruemelkatze]

Thanks for the remarks! I need to have a closer look on that as I've never really worked with WSL or VSCode remote sessions myself.

Beyond those it would be great to recognize when VSCode is open in a remote session and automatically prepend the correct data to the path. The Project Manager extension currently does this.

What data is relevant here? vscode-remote://wsl+Ubuntu?

[looeee]

What data is relevant here? vscode-remote://wsl+Ubuntu?

I'm not sure. Maybe you can assume a path starting with \\wsl$ is a wsl project and that you can just do a replace with \\wsl$\xxx\ -> vscode-remote://wsl+xxx/?

Or maybe look at the code for Project Manager and see what they do?

[urbgimtam]

Same issue here.
As all my projects are in WSL2, it becomes quite unusable.

[David-Kyrat]

Same for me, I really need to use every day wsl2 for my projects and University work and i cannot use this extension anymore because of this. It'd be really cool to have a feature "WSL folder" or "remote proejct/window" etc.

[Kruemelkatze]

Sorry fot the late response! With the latest update 2.6.0, I came back to this issue and included this functionality. However, I was still not able to quite understand this use-case, as I'm not using WSL. Sorry about that. 🤷‍♂️

I based the function on your comments. You should be able to enter \\wsl$\xxx\with the new Enter Manually option for the project path. This is then changed to vscode-remote://wsl+xxx/. This behaviour can also be toggled with a setting in case something doesn't work:

If it doesn't work, feel free to address this issue again! :)

[diegocrivelaro]

Should it stay that way?