An introduction to Dev Box
Contemporary dev workstations come with a plethora of challenges. New developers can spend days setting up a working environment and weeks before they make their first commit. Senior developers often work across multiple projects that can bring conflicting dependencies and bog down their dev workstation. And we’ve all made a change that unexpectedly left us with a broken environment.
With Microsoft Dev Box, dev teams create and maintain Dev Box images with all the tools and dependencies their devs need to build and run their applications. Teams can include their application source code and nightly built binaries, enabling devs to immediately start running and understanding the code without having to wait for long re-builds.
Microsoft Dev Box supports any developer IDE, SDK, or internal tool that runs on Windows. Dev Boxes can target any development workload you can build from a Windows desktop and are particularly well-suited for desktop, mobile, IoT, and gaming. You can even build cross-platform apps using Windows Subsystem for Linux.
Because Microsoft Dev Boxes are hosted in the Microsoft cloud, you can access them from anywhere: Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, or your web browser.
Resources
- Article: Introducing Microsoft Dev Box
- Video: Introducing Microsoft Dev Box and Azure Deployment Environments
Get started with Dev Box
Interested in giving Dev Box a try? Sign up for the private preview today and join the waitlist so that you can get hands-on with Dev Box in the coming months.
- Article: Build developer environments fast with Microsoft Dev Box
- Sign up for the Dev Box private preview
