The new Dev Home experience for Windows!
⚠️ Dev Home will be going away in May 2025 and a subset of its features will be moved to new places. Stay tuned for more information in the following months. ⚠️
Welcome to the Dev Home repo!
Dev Home is a new experience from Microsoft aiming to give developers more power on Windows.
This repository contains the source code for:
- Dev Home
- Dev Home core widgets
Related repositories include:
Installing and running Dev Home
Note: Dev Home requires Windows 11 version 21H2 (build 22000) or Windows 10 version 22H2 (build 19045) or newer.
If you are running Windows 11 23H2 (build 22621.2361) or later, you can install and run Dev Home just by finding it in the Start menu.
Otherwise, you can install Dev Home from the Microsoft Store. This allows you to always be on the latest version when we release new builds with automatic upgrades. Note that widgets may not work on older versions of Windows.
This is our preferred method.
Other install methods
Via GitHub
For users who are unable to install Dev Home from the Microsoft Store, released builds can be manually downloaded from this repository's Releases page.
Via Windows Package Manager CLI (aka winget)
winget users can download and install the latest Dev Home release by installing the Microsoft.DevHome package:
winget install --id Microsoft.DevHome -e
Dev Home roadmap
The plan for Dev Home can be found in our roadmap.
Dev Home overview
Please take a few minutes to review the overview below before diving into the code:
Dashboard
The Dev Home dashboard displays Windows widgets. These widgets are built using the Windows widget platform, which relies on Adaptive Cards.
Machine configuration
The machine configuration tool utilizes the Dev Home GitHub Extension, but isn't required to clone and install apps. The app installation tool is powered by winget.
Popular apps
The machine configuration tool provides a list of popular apps when selecting applications to install. This is currently a hard-coded list of applications that have been popular with developers on Windows. Popularity was determined by high levels of installation and usage. As this is a moment in time, we are not accepting submissions for this list. We're looking to improve the experience with Suggested Apps so the list can be optimized for developers.
Documentation
Documentation for Dev Home can be found at https://aka.ms/devhomedocs.
Contributing
We are excited to work alongside you, our amazing community, to build and enhance Dev Home!
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
- Leeza Mathew, Engineering Lead: @leezamathew
Code of conduct
We welcome contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.opensource.microsoft.com.
When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.
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
This project may contain trademarks or logos for projects, products, or services. Authorized use of Microsoft trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines. Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship. Any use of third-party trademarks or logos is subject to those third-parties' policies.