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# singer-tap-development
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@steve_clarke - Great demo today - thanks again for showing your new tap-mssql! I meant to ask you about the
.devcontainer
folder I noticed in your repo. Are you actively using the dev container approach or was that just part of the upstream repo?
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Hi @aaronsteers, sorry I missed this message earlier. So the
.devcontainer
 folder was an idea that I grabbed from your demonstration of use Visual Studio Code and the CI/CD template from here https://github.com/meltano/meltano-cicd-lab-template. I found this an excellent way to work when creating a full working Dev Container within Visual Studio code. I can just destroy it when I like and click on the Hyperlink from the README to re-create the container at anytime. So I added this folder to the tap that I forked and made the appropriate adjustments - I also edited the README.md file to include the hyperlink to open Visual Studio and create the dev container with the tap. The container comes installed with everything to work on and continue my development of tap-mssql. There are many other ways to work, but this seemed like a great way for me as I'm operating on a Windows 10 desktop. Having a full linux environment that I can access within Visual Studio code is excellent. I really appreciate that demo you gave several months ago. Thanks Steve