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The new Dev Home experience for Windows!
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Access dev tools in Home or Dashboard #1159

Open andez2000 opened 1 year ago

andez2000 commented 1 year ago

Suggested new feature or improvement

Its great we can add dev tools to our machines easily.

But would be great to have a single goto in the app where we can start them up.

I would like to see Apps in the left hand navigation and have a dashboard/tile view to add icons we can click.

We need to allow ease of starting them in administrator mode.

Scenario

I need to start VSCode. Sure I can use the Start/Search feature in Windows.

If I have dozens of dev tools, then I want to see them collated together so I can find what I was looking for.

I want to fire a database tool up - but which one? I need a Python editor - what have I got.

Lets just see what is on my computer.

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asklar commented 1 year ago

this might be covered by #1049

andez2000 commented 1 year ago

I was thinking that I'd want to launch apps I don't have any projects associated.

Like docker, SQL server, azure data studio etc. But that link looks great.

shakersMSFT commented 1 month ago

1984 might be a solution for this ask.