At Construct 2025, Microsoft introduced a number of enhancements to fashionable Home windows developer instruments, particularly WinGet, PowerToys, and Terminal. The corporate says that “constructing nice AI experiences begins with developer productiveness,” so these enhancements will assist app makers maintain all the required instruments in a single place and arrange their environments with fewer clicks.

Beginning with WinGet, Microsoft will quickly allow you to arrange and replicate a developer setting with a single WinGet Configuration command. This function captures the present state of your system, together with apps, packages, and instruments, right into a single config file, permitting you to rapidly arrange the identical setting on one other system. WinGet Configuration may also assist Microsoft Desired State Configuration V3, which implies apps that assist DSC V3 could have their settings included within the configuration file.

Subsequent, we’ve Superior Home windows Settings, a brand new part within the Settings app, which replaces the previous “For Builders” web page and the now-discontinued Dev Residence app. Superior Home windows Settings permits builders and customers to manage extra elements of their Home windows expertise and have sooner entry to developer-related settings, together with GitHub integration in File Explorer, and extra. We’ve already seen the brand new web page in motion in latest Home windows preview builds, and it’s lastly official. Microsoft says will probably be accessible for public testing within the close to future.

The just lately launched Command Palette from PowerToys additionally received a shout-out at Construct 2025. In case you aren’t acquainted, Command Palette is a reworked PowerToys Run launcher that gives a sooner and simpler solution to entry instructions, apps, workflows, recordsdata, and extra in a single place. It’s helpful not only for builders however for normal customers as effectively, and with Home windows Search nonetheless being in a reasonably depressing state, Command Palette is a must have instrument for everybody, and it’s now usually accessible.

Lastly, Microsoft introduced a brand new command-line textual content editor for Home windows referred to as Edit. It is going to permit builders to edit recordsdata instantly within the command line with out switching to a different app. Edit is coming quickly to Home windows 11 preview builds, and its supply code will likely be accessible within the official GitHub repo.

Along with new developer instruments, Microsoft introduced quite a lot of modifications within the Microsoft Retailer that make it simpler to create a developer account, monitor apps’ well being metrics, promote packages within the retailer, and extra. You’ll be able to be taught extra about that right here.