Development box setup

List of articles about development box setup

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How did I automate the setup of my developer Windows laptop?

In this article, I talked about my latest project: how I built a script to automate the setup of my developer machine using Boxstarter, Chocolatey, Winget, and PowerShell... and how I learned a few things along the way.

Sep 2, 2022

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Customize your applications when installing them with winget

In my last article about Windows Package Manager, I said that with winget I was missing "being able to specify some parameters for a package installation (like the workload and components to install for Visual Studio 2019)". Well, that was before I went through a few GitHub issues of the winget-cli repository that mentioned the override option.

May 31, 2021

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Install your applications with winget

Using Windows Package Manager import to install multiple applications.

May 26, 2021