Tools

I am a huge fan of automation and powershell - this should explain why I really love chocolatey (a package manager to install software with powershell). Today I created a new feed for SharePoint 2013 Development Tools: http://www.myget.org/feed/Packages/sharepoint2013dev and uploaded the very cool SharePoint 2013 Search Query Tool to the chocolatey gallery. This tool helps creating and testing search querries - and search is everywhere in SharePoint 2013! After installing chocolatey you can get a great starter toolset with one line of powershell:

A while ago I wrote about chocolatey and how to install a lot tools automatically. Thats especially handy if you have to set up a new environment for SharePoint 2013 RTM… Now even more Today and yesterday I added two more packages - two tools that I always use and now I can add them in my scripted setup: ULSViewer and CKSDEV (Server) CKSDev The Visual Studio Extension is installed if you have a Visual Studio 2010 or 2012 installed.

Okay I am in love with a new tool called chocolatey – its a package manager like “apt-get” for windows systems based on the very awesome nuget – and this neat piece of software can install other software. Its very easy to add software or packages and there are even galleries (340 packages in the main gallery yet) or feeds where you get a good start. Chocolatey So installation of this package manager must be very complicated….