Development Environment Setup with Chocolatey

This repo contains a script for installing my development environment with chocolatey, an awesome package manager for Windows.

Firstly, you need to install Chocolatey. You can find more information from https://chocolatey.org/install.

After installed choco, you should be sure that your execution policy is Unrestricted or Bypass for executing the script. You can control your execution policy by opening PowerShell as Administrator and run:

Get-ExecutionPolicy

If it is not Unrestricted or Bypass, you should run that command:

Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope LocalMachine

Now, you're ready to execute the installation script (PowerShell as Administrator).

.\setup_development_environment.ps1

You can activate or deactivate the packages in the list whatever you want. And, you can fork the repo and create your own development environment setup script.

Visual Studio 2019 Installation Details

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According to this link https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/workload-component-id-vs-community?view=vs-2019, you can select your workloads or components that you want to install. The script will install those packages:

• Visual Studio Core Editor (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Component.CoreEditor)
• ASP.NET and Web Development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetWeb)
• Azure Development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Azure)
• Python Development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Python)
• .Net Core Cross-platform Development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetCoreTools)
• Desktop Development with C++ (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop)
• Game Development with C++ (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeGame)
• Linux Development with C++ (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeCrossPlat)

You can also add those packages depends on your needs :

• Node.js Development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Node)
• .NET Desktop Development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop)
• Universal Windows Platform Development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Universal)
• Mobile Development with .NET (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NetCrossPlat)
• Mobile Development with C++ (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeMobile)
• Game Development with Unity (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedGame)
• Data Storage and Processing (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Data)
• Data Science and Analytical Applications (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.DataScience)
• Visual Studio Extension Development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.VisualStudioExtension)
• Office/SharePoint Development (Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.Office)

There is another easy way to install all packages and workloads with --allWorkloads and --includeOptional parameters if you have enough space for installing everything!!!

Components

Individual components can be installed from the same link, some useful components below:

• GitHub extension for Visual Studio (Component.GitHub.VisualStudio)
• IncrediBuild - Build Acceleration (Component.Incredibuild)
• OpenJDK (Microsoft distribution) (Component.OpenJDK)
• Unreal Engine installer (Component.Unreal)
• Cocos (Component.Cocos)

Known Issues

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By the way, I had some issues, when I run the script. You may need to know before running the script.

• If you want to install Spotify, you should uninstall Windows Store version first.