Use these images as a starting point to create custom images for developers building any application. They are updated monthly and include the most common tools and configurations used by developers.

All plans include the following tools and settings:

Gen2 VM images
Visual Studio Code
Git for Windows
GitHub CLI
Azure CLI
Azure Developer CLI
Azure PowerShell Module
PowerShell 7
Developer mode enabled
Hyper-V
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

For Visual Studio developers, we recommend using our Visual Studio 2019 or Visual Studio 2022 Dev Box compatible images as a starting point.

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Windows client for developers (Microsoft Dev Box compatible)

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Windows client for developers (Microsoft Dev Box compatible)

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Windows client for developers (Microsoft Dev Box compatible)
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