Dev Home is a new control center for Windows that provides a centralized location for setting up your machine, monitoring your system information, and managing your projects. It is designed to streamline the workflow of developers and improve their productivity. Dev Home allows developers to:
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Monitor workflows: Dev Home provides customizable widgets on the dashboard to monitor workflows and coding tasks.
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Set up development environment: Dev Home extensions can be used to set up widgets that display developer-specific information. Developers can create and share their own custom-built extensions.
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Store project files: Dev Home allows developers to create a Dev Drive to store their project files and Git repositories, which can improve the performance of the projects storage volume.
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Configure coding environments: Dev Home can manage everything needed to get a machines development environment to a ready-to-code state, whether its an end-to-end setup process, using a WinGet Configuration file, or just performing a quick step, like cloning a Git repository, installing a specific application, or adding a Dev Drive.
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Connect to GitHub: Dev Home makes it easy to connect to GitHub and set up a machine to code for the repositories developers care about, easily installing the tools and packages they need.
Dev Home is part of Windows 11 and is available in preview. It will update through the Microsoft Store and GitHub with continuous releases to add new features and improve quality.
