Setting up a new development machine without pressing Next a single time using Chocolately
August 1, 2013
Up to now I have sadly not have time to look into Chocolatey. I know what it is but I haven’t played with it. As the time grew closer to set up a new development machine I thought I’d give it a run Chocolatey a run for it’s money.
Could my entire development environment be installed using a script? That is - from a bare-bones Windows installation could I run a script and get everything I needed in place.
This was a real challenge since I don’t know (nor want to learn) any powershell and consider myself to be a newbie Chocolatey user.
This post describes my journey.
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