New Job, New Computer

I haven't setup a new work computer up in five years, so I thought I'd record the list of software & tools I install on my work computer this time in my new job in case anyone found it useful.

• Microsoft Expression Design 4 - An amazing, little known vector based graphic tool
• Paint.net - A pixel based graphic tool
• Azure Storage Explorer - For navigating and interacting with Azure Storage
• Google Chrome - Popular browser
• Microsoft Edge - Some people use Edge. Extremely similar to Chrome these days as it uses Chromium.
• Visual Studio Professional - The greatest IDE in the world. Someone gathered some lovely tips for Visual Studio here.
• Visual Studio Code - The 2nd greatest IDE in the world
• SourceTree - My Git client of choice
• Git For Windows - Who doesn't use Git
• ZoomIt - For zooming into parts of the screen and making minor screen annotations (very useful)
• Windows Terminal - Really getting to love this multi purpose customisable terminal
• Microsoft To Do - For keeping track of my to do list
• Fiddler - For tracking network calls
• Postman - For calling API endpoints and making HTTP requests
• Notepad++ - A handy little text editor
• Agent Ransack - Remarkably fast filesystem searcher
• Microsoft Power Toys - A few nice utilities in here
• Zoom - Because some people don't want to use Teams?
• Stream Deck - I like to use my Elgato Stream Deck buttons as shortcuts to webpages.
• SQL Server Developer Edition - Relational database
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - Cos I gotta look at the database
• Node.js - As most of the world seems to run on node these days.
• IIS - Turning this feature on to run web apps locally, as not on by default
• Docker - Because containers are a thing now

There's probably not too much of a surprise there.

Whilst I like to the idea of using something like Chocolately or WinGet, neither have an exhaustive list of all the things I need, else I'd definitely use them.

-- Lee