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rclanan
rclanan

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Development Environment Setup Tips

Can anyone offer tips on how to setup the ideal windows development environment? Contemplating on moving to vmware or virtual box setup for development and keeping the development tools off of my main system but then think that would cause a headaches if I want to just try something really quick.

Just looking for suggestions from other developers on how they setup their development environment to achieve the maximum productivity.

Thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 811

Answers (1)

revs
revs

Reputation: 671

I recommend VMWare or a similar Virtualization product. It saves so much time.

I setup a VMWare image with a clean Windows install all the development tools I needed, and I then made a copy of this. Now anytime I need a "clean" dev environment I can simply duplicate the VM Image and off I go!

It also means all my non-development files are seperate and are out of harms way.

And if I choose, I can take the VM file with me to another PC and have the same development environment.

Using a VM also lets you try stuff out without any harm. You can create a "snapshot" - run/perform some action, then easily revert back to the snapshot. Great for testing something over and over quite easily.

Upvotes: 3

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