Are you still spending days to provision/install your dev environment from scratch when you need to? You gotta stop it. It is insane. There is a better way.

This year i was lucky to attended devops class by Andrey Adamovich from Devchampions team. This event took my automation mindset to the next level.

In this post, I want to show how to quickly provision .NET Core oriented dev environment in Windows. The simplest way I found is to use Chocolatey package manager.

So let's get started.

The very first step is Chocolatey installation. Here is the PowerShell script:

@powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin"

Next. I need my favorite browsers. Let's grab them":

choco install googlechrome -y  
choco install firefox -y  

Containers and Vagrant are great tools for running different services in isolation:

choco install docker -y  
choco install docker-compose -y  
choco install vagrant -y  

Source control tools is a must have:

choco install git -y  
choco install sourcetree -y  

Moving along, IDEs and code editors:

choco install visualstudiocode -y  
choco install visualstudio2015community -y  

Let's don't forget about persistence:

choco install sqlserverlocaldb -y --allow-empty-checksums  
choco install sql-server-management-studio -y  

I'm into Angular2 these day. Let's install Angular CLI tools:

choco install nodejs.install -y  
npm install -g angular-cli  

.NET Core itself: SDK + Tooling for VS:

choco install dotnetcore -y  
choco install dotnetcore-vs -pre -y  

Messengers of your choice:

choco install skype -y  
choco install telegram -y  

That's it. My minimal toolbox for .NET Core development is ready.

The great thing is that -y option in the script above means unattended installation. Just launch it and keep calm.

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