Welcome to the Dev Home Azure Extension repo
This repository contains the source code for:
- Dev Home Azure Extension
- Dev Home Azure widgets
Related repositories include:
Installing and running Dev Home Azure Extension
Note: The Dev Home Azure Extension requires Dev Home. Dev Home requires Windows 11 21H2 (build 22000) or later.
Dev Home Extensions library [Recommended]
You can install the Dev Home Azure Extension from the Extensions library within Dev Home. This page can be found in the left-hand navigation pane. The list of available extensions will provide links to install from the store.
Microsoft Store
You can also install the Dev Home Azure Extension directly from its Microsoft Store listing.
Other install methods
Via GitHub
For users who are unable to install the Dev Home Azure Extension from the Microsoft Store, released builds can be manually downloaded from this repository's Releases page.
Dev Home Azure Extension overview
Please take a few minutes to review the overview below before diving into the code:
Widgets
The Dev Home Azure Extension provides widgets for Dev Home's dashboard, which is built as a Windows widget renderer. These widgets are built using the Windows widget platform, which relies on Adaptive Cards.
Machine configuration repository recommendations
The machine configuration tool utilizes the Dev Home Azure Extension to recommend repositories to clone, but isn't required to clone and install apps. The app installation tool is powered by winget.
Documentation
Documentation for the Dev Home Azure Extension can be found at https://aka.ms/devhomedocs.
Contributing
We are excited to work alongside you, our amazing community, to build and enhance the Dev Home Azure Extension!
BEFORE you start work on a feature/fix, please read & follow our Contributor's Guide to help avoid any wasted or duplicate effort.
Communicating with the team
The easiest way to communicate with the team is via GitHub issues.
Please file new issues, feature requests and suggestions, but DO search for similar open/closed preexisting issues before creating a new issue.
If you would like to ask a question that you feel doesn't warrant an issue (yet), please reach out to us via Twitter:
- Kayla Cinnamon, Senior Product Manager: @cinnamon_msft
- Clint Rutkas, Principal Product Manager: @clintrutkas
Developer guidance
- You must be running Windows 11 21H2 (build >= 10.0.22000.0) to run Dev Home
- You must enable Developer Mode in the Windows Settings app
Building the code
- Clone the repository
- Uninstall the Preview version of the Dev Home Azure Extension (Dev Home has a hard time choosing which extension to use if two versions exist)
- Open
DevHomeAzureExtension.slnin Visual Studio 2022 or later and build from the IDE, or runbuild\scripts\build.ps1from a Visual Studio command prompt.
Code of conduct
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This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.
Trademarks
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