My Windows development environment

This page contains mostly notes on how my Windows development environment is setup.

Tools

The following list shows the tools I use most for development, explanations are not really necessary:

• Visual Studio
• Git (Git Bash)
• Visual Studio Code (mostly for frontend development)

Some other tool I use regularly are:

• Putty
• VirtualBox
• WSL

Visual Studio

Within Visual Studio I use the following plugins:

• Productivity Power Tools (Actually, I am not using everything so specify the once I use…)
• RegionExpander
• SonarLint

Vim and config in Git

This is no longer necessary, since the company made some changes. Besides that, it did seem to break certain applications…

In order to have the same configuration of Vim on several machines, I store my configuration on GitHub. To be able to use the config in Windows on my work laptop, I need to change the location of my home directory. Otherwise my home directory will be a network drive when I am logged in at work, and to a local directory (c:\users\<username>) when I use the laptop outside the corparate network. In order to achive this, I will do the following:

• Create a custom home folder where the config can be stored (I use c:\home)
• Add a new environment variable, called ‘HOME’ and give it the value of the directory just created (c:\home)
• Checkout the vimrc repository to c:\home\vimfiles

After this VIM will use the correct configuration. Note that Git Bash will also use this directory as it’s home directory.