I am using Visual Studio 2022 and the AWS Toolkit. I have a serverless application that uses AWS AppConfig Agent successfully when deployed to AWS. However, when debugging locally I find that the agent does not seem to be running at http://localhost:2772. I have the latest tooling: AWS CLI, dotnet Amazon.Lambda.Tools, AWS Toolkit for VS2022, 8 project.

I am following appconfig-agent-how-to-use-local-development but it does not seem to explain how you get the agent installed and started locally. I clicked the link for AWS Lambda and that seems to describe how to set it up in AWS, but I do not find how to install it locally.

Also, the instructions say to create a file named application_name:environment_name:configuration_profile_name; : is not allowed in a filename on Windows so I do not understand how I am supposed to create that file.

I feel like I am missing something very obvious. Right now I can successfully test the app config code by deploying to AWS. It will be nice to have this working locally too for faster dev workflow.

To summarize, my questions are:

• How do I install/start the appconfig agent for local debugging using Visual Studio 2022?
• What is the filename format on Windows for application_name:environment_name:configuration_profile_name since : is not valid?