Microsoft Dev Home was launched by Microsoft in May 2023 as a Windows 11 app to assist developers to streamline the setup process of a development environment. However, in January 2025, Microsoft announced that it will be deprecating Dev Home in May 2025. Development history Microsoft based its development at GitHub.
It allowed the user to set up a "dev drive" using ReFS, set environment variables, change common developer-oriented settings such as showing file extensions in Windows Explorer, and install software using the Windows Package Manager ().
See also Visual Studio Visual Studio Code Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Windows Terminal
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