Visual Studio w/Docker has exited with code 4294967295 (0xffffffff)

Question

On our new company laptops we are running into issues running containers in docker desktop from visual studio. We tried a bunch of things which were unsuccessful. Any help / thoughts would be great as we are running out of ideas.

.Net Core Version 6 / Asp.net Core (web api)

Running docker compose manually in cmd works and I'm able to hit the site. Running docker compose debug profile from visual studio results in:

The output window shows "The program '' has exited with code 4294967295 (0xffffffff)."

Docker desktop shows the container running but I can't grab logs from it or hit it in the url.

WSL is fine and everything is working there.

My home machine works great and i'm able to launch and debug containers.

user_1220787 · Answer

Faced with identical error, I was able to resolve by deleting VSDBG debugger folder:

%USERPROFILE%\vsdbg\vs2017u5

After deleting the folder start Visual Studio debugger (F5) and as a result VSDBG debugger will be recreated

Container Tools build properties https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/containers/container-msbuild-properties?view=vs-2022

user_20021030 · Answer

Most of the time this error code does not provide any concrete information. In my case I had to go and find error details in logs folder. Log file is generally located at 'YourProject\bin\Debug\App_Data\Logs' location. There was an issue with 3rd party service and it worked after fixing the service issue.

Visual Studio w/Docker has exited with code 4294967295 (0xffffffff)

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