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Add Dev Home deprecation announcement Jan 28 (#5136)
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hub/apps/get-started/samples.md

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[**Dev Home**](/windows/dev-home/)<br/> Introduced with Windows 11, Dev Home is a dashboard that provides quick access to the tools you need to develop apps for Windows.
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[**Dev Home**](/windows/dev-home/)<br/> Introduced with Windows 11, Dev Home was an experimental dashboard that provided quick access to the tools used to develop apps for Windows. Dev Home will no longer be supported beginning May 2025.
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[**Dev Drive**](/windows/dev-drive/)<br/>In order to speed up common development tasks, you can create a specially formatted drive (a Dev Drive) that is used to store your projects.

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## Developer tools
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[Dev Home Overview](/windows/dev-home/) | Dev Home is a new control center for Windows providing the ability to monitor projects in your dashboard using customizable widgets, set up your dev environment by downloading apps, packages, or repositories, connect to your developer accounts and tools (such as GitHub), and create a Dev Drive for storage all in one place.
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[Dev Home Overview](/windows/dev-home/) | Dev Home was an experimental control center for Windows, but will no longer be supported beginning May 2025. Dev Home provided the ability to monitor projects in your dashboard using customizable widgets, set up your dev environment by downloading apps, packages, or repositories, connect to your developer accounts and tools (such as GitHub), and create a Dev Drive for storage all in one place.
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[WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)](/windows/wsl/) | Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature of Windows that allows you to run a Linux environment on your Windows machine, without the need for a separate virtual machine or dual booting.
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hub/dev-home/environments.md

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title: Environments in Dev Home
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description: Learn about interacting with your virtual or cloud environments from Dev Home.
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ms.date: 07/23/2024
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ms.date: 01/28/2025
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# Environments in Dev Home
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> 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.
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A virtual environment is a self-contained workspace that allows you to maintain separate dependencies and settings for different projects, effectively isolating them from each other. The type of virtual environments supported and maintained by Microsoft currently include:
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- [Local Hyper-V virtual machine (VM)](/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/get-started/create-a-virtual-machine-in-hyper-v)

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title: Dev Home Extensions
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description: Dev Home supports both default and custom-built extensions. Learn more about the Dev Home GitHub extension, how to customize Git widgets and notifications in the Dev Home dashboard, and how to build your own Dev Home extension.
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# Dev Home extensions
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> 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.
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Dev Home supports both default and custom-built extensions. Learn more about the Dev Home GitHub extension, how to customize Git widgets and notifications in the Dev Home dashboard, and how to build your own Dev Home extension.
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The GitHub extension is currently the only extension included with Dev Home by default, however new extensions are in active development.

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title: Dev Home for Windows Developers
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description: Dev Home is a new control center for Windows providing the ability to track your workflows and coding tasks using customizable widgets, set up your dev environment, connect to your developer accounts and tools (such as GitHub), and install apps and packages all in one place.
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# What is Dev Home?
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> 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.
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Dev Home is a new control center for Windows providing the ability to monitor projects in your dashboard using customizable widgets, set up your dev environment by downloading apps, packages, or repositories, connect to your developer accounts and tools (such as GitHub), and create a [Dev Drive](../dev-drive/index.md) for storage all in one place.
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- Use the **centralized dashboard with customizable widgets** to monitor workflows, track your dev projects, coding tasks, [Azure DevOps queries](), GitHub issues, pull requests, available SSH connections, and system CPU, GPU, Memory, and Network performance.

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title: Dev Home Machine Configuration
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description: Set up your Windows development environment with Dev Home by using the integrated set up tool to get your machine to a development-ready state. Use the step-by-step graphical interface to walk through the setup process or use a WinGet Configuration file with pre-defined setup requirements.
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# Dev Home Machine Configuration - Set up your Windows development environment
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> 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.
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The Dev Home machine configuration tool brings all of your dev environment set up tasks into one place, enabling you to efficiently set up a new machine or onboard new projects.
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Avoid all of the fractured and tedious processes typically involved in getting your machine ready for development. Dev Home streamlines the process of searching for project requirements, cloning repositories, and finding specific versions of software and tools to install. Manage multiple tool sign-ins, minimize context switching, and reach productivity faster so you can focus on what you do best - developing.

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title: Dev Home utilities
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description: Get access to developer utilities directly in Windows through Dev Home.
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# Use developer utilities delivered with Dev Home
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> 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.
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Dev Home brings a set of utilities that are helpful to developers directly to Windows. [Microsoft PowerToys](../powertoys/index.md) now delivers some of its utilities within Dev Home, making it even easier to use these tools.
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![Dev Home utilities screenshot](../images/dev-home-utilities.png)

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title: Dev Home Windows Customization
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description: Learn how to optimize your workflows by customizing Windows File Explorer, Dev Drive insights, and developer settings using Dev Home.
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# Dev Home Windows Customization
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> 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.
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Windows Customization in Dev Home enables you to configure your Windows environment to suit your development needs.
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- Adjust advanced File Explorer settings, such as showing file extensions, hidden and system files, full paths in the title bar, and empty drives.

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