Microsoft announced the introduction of “Dev Home” and “Dev Drive” at the Build 2023 Developer Conference, hoping to make Win11 the most popular platform for developers.
Dev Home, or Developer Home, is now available on the Microsoft Store, an open-source project, and GitHub has just updated the latest 0.6 previews with three major updates:
Accessibility
- Buttons are no longer clipped or hidden when increasing zoom.
Changes
- Machine Configuration Summary now shows more detailed information
- The Machine Configuration Summary should now show the errors that occurred.
Bug Fixes
- Dashboards are more responsive when rendering widgets.
- Cloning a repo by entering a relative path via URL no longer causes Dev Home to crash.
- Machine Configuration banner no longer returns when cancelled
- Custom widgets no longer require a Microsoft package ID to appear in Dev Home.
- Margins on extension pages are now fixed
- Adding repositories is now more reliable.
- Machine Configuration Error Summary should now follow the correct theme
- Machine Configuration Errors can now be selected
A description of Dev Home is as follows:
Dev Home is a control center that keeps track of all workflows and coding tasks in one location. It features simplified setup tools that enable you to install apps and packages in a centralized location, extensions that allow you to connect to developer accounts such as GitHub, and customizable dashboards with a variety of developer-centric widgets that provide you with information at your fingertips.
Its features include:
- Machine configuration setup tool
- Customizable dashboards
- Developer widgets
- GitHub integration
- Extensions
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