I couldn’t find an article on this topic . so i thought i will put one .

Now there are many ways to interact with the container .You can do it with visual studio , Docker Desktop /terminal window
The following shows how to interact with the console app running in container using visual studio .
click the button shown below to open the terminal window .

It opens the power shell in the /app directory
cd in to the the directory that has the dll file .Fo e.g in this case it will be
cd /app/bin/Debug/net9.0/
dotnet <.dllfile>
Now you will be able to interact with it

Another way to do it is to build the image from the docker file generated by visual studio, as shown below

so try to open a separate terminal window to interact with the container .

here i built the image from the docker file visual studio generated and then started a container from it.using the following command
D:\LocalProjects\2024\DotNetConsoleApps\JuiceShop.Solution>docker buildx build -t juiceshop:v2 -f ./JuiceShop/Dockerfile .
The following is the output of theabove command

Once the above command is successful , it created a container image .

if you have installed docker desktop you could see this local image .

Now, to spin a container from the image , you can execute the following command in the terminal
docker run -it –name “zzzz” juiceshop:v2

if you don’t specify –name followed by container name (in this example zzzz) then docker gives an arbitrary name to the container.

Run the container
docker run -it –name “zzzz” juiceshop:v2
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