
You only have to authenticate once when you add a stored connection and the n this authentication information will remain stored in Visual Studio, allowing for less downtime spent managing SSH connections that have timed out.

The integrated terminal pulls from the stored connections established in your Connection Manager. Now, instead of starting an SSH session inside of PowerShell or WSL and having to re-authenticate, you can select one of your existing connections with one click. I t can be accessed by going to View->Terminal in Visual Studio. This updated terminal includes an interactive SSH shell. In the latest version of Visual Studio, users are now able to leve rage the integrated terminal to access their remote targets when developing for remote machines from Windows.
