Development Environment Setup with WinGet

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Table of Contents

• Installation
• What's Included
• Documentation

Installation

1. Open a Windows PowerShell terminal
2. Run the following script

if (Test-Path 'winget-config.yaml') { Remove-Item -Path 'winget-config.yaml' -Force }; Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/softwareworkercom/winget/refs/heads/main/winget-config.yaml' -OutFile 'winget-config.yaml' -Headers @{"Cache-Control"="no-cache"};
winget configure -f winget-config.yaml
if (Test-Path '.wslconfig') { Remove-Item -Path '.wslconfig' -Force }; Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/softwareworkercom/winget/refs/heads/main/.wslconfig' -OutFile '.wslconfig' -Headers @{"Cache-Control"="no-cache"};
if (Test-Path 'post-install.ps1') { Remove-Item -Path 'post-install.ps1' -Force }; Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/softwareworkercom/winget/refs/heads/main/post-install.ps1' -OutFile 'post-install.ps1' -Headers @{"Cache-Control"="no-cache"}; .\post-install.ps1

What's Included

Here’s the list of applications that will be installed (based on the winget-config.yaml):

1. Visual Studio 2026 Community
2. Visual Studio Code
3. .NET Core 10 SDK
4. Git
5. GitHub Desktop
6. NVM for Windows
7. Redis Insight
8. Amazon NoSQL Workbench
9. Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10. Microsoft SqlPackage
11. Podman Desktop
12. Obsidian
13. ShareX
14. Nuget CLI
15. TreeSize
16. WinMerge
17. PowerShell
18. JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh
19. 7Zip
20. GIMP
21. Microsoft.Sysinternals
22. Microsoft DevTunnels
23. Microsoft DevProxy
24. Mozilla Firefox
25. JetBrains WebStorm
26. Windows Terminal

Here’s the list of applications that will be installed (based on the post-install.ps1):

1. Node.js (LTS) via NVM
2. Angular CLI
3. React CLI
4. Visual Studio Code Extensions (including C#, MSSQL, Remote Containers, Remote WSL, AWS Toolkit, GitHub Copilot Chat, Kubernetes Tools, Playwright, PowerShell, and Postman)
5. Internet Information Services (IIS) (multiple features enabled, such as ASP.NET 4.5, CGI, WebSockets, etc.)
6. PSReadLine
7. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2 with Ubuntu
8. WSL Configuration - Configures WSL 2 with optimized settings:
   • 8GB memory limit
   • 4 CPU processors
   • 4GB swap
   • localhost forwarding enabled

Documentation

• Windows Package Manager Documentation