Week 46, 2022 - Tips I learned this week
This week, I installed .NET 7 on my laptop and I used Windows Package Manager for that:
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.
Producing packages for Windows Package Manager
In my previous articles about winget I talked about installing packages but I did not talk about producing packages for Windows Package Manager. So let's set things right.
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.
Install your applications with winget
You probably have already heard of the new Windows Package Manager and its command-line tool winget that allows you to automate installing and upgrading software on your Windows 10 computer.