Mounting local folder to windows container using docker compose

Question

There are lots of post on this topic but either they are discussing about docker run or linux or discussing about earlier version of docker/ docker compose. I am simply trying to share a config file that resides locally, with my container. The following is my docker compose

version: "3.8"

services:  
  TestService:
    image: testservicelogmon
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    volumes:
      - C:\ProgramData\Solution Name\Project Name:C:\ProgramData\Solution Name\Project Name:RW

Note: "Solution Name" and "Project Name" have space between them, and my config file resides in Project name folder.

The images gets created successfully but I always have "Mounts": [] and "Volumes": null. I went through the documentation and some posts at SO but couldn't find anything that would solve this problem for me. Below are couple of links I referred to. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks !

Update: It's just not with this folder, it seems like I am not able to mount any folder, whereas if I do a docker runlike below it works perfectly fine.

docker run -it -v 'C:\ProgramData\Solution Name\Project Name:C:\ProgramData\C:\ProgramData\Solution Name\Project Name:RW' testservicelogmon:latest powershell

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score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 18 '20 at 16:47

The code seems to work fine. I was making a stupid mistake of running the docker-compose build command followed by docker run. This way everything was working fine but the mounts would always show empty. All I had to do was run docker-compose build followed by docker-compose up and the mounts were populated as expected.

Mounting local folder to windows container using docker compose

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