I recently reinstalled WSL2 on my Windows machine, and I’m trying to work exclusively through that shell, even when I open Windows-based applications.

VS Code already does this really well, and the integration is great. I, however, work in Visual Studio somewhat regularly, so I wanted the same type of experience as code ..

Here’s my .zshrc:

export PATH="/mnt/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2019/Enterprise/Common7/IDE/:$PATH"

...

alias vs="devenv.exe *.sln > /dev/null 2>&1 &"

Note that I add the Visual Studio 2019 path to the $PATH environment variable (this is obviously different based on the different Visual Studio versions), then I set an alias at the bottom to fire up Visual Studio for the solutions in the current director with the vs alias. I added in the > /dev/null 2>&1 & to run it in the background and to pipe output and erros to stdout.