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Maximise productivity of your Windows 10 development machine with custom workflows and configurations

Stuart Leeks

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To my life partner, Emilie, for your support in my career and life in general. Thank you for making this book possible.

To James, Abi, and Dan for your support and cheerleading through the process.

I love you all!

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Stuart Leeks is a principal software development engineer at Microsoft. He has worked with a wide range of customers, from small ISVs to large enterprises, to help them be successful in building with the Microsoft technology stack. While Stuart has experience with a diverse set of technologies, he is most passionate about the web and the cloud.

Stuart is a web geek, lover of containers, cloud fanatic, feminist, performance and scalability enthusiast, father of three, husband, and a salsa dancer and teacher, and loves bad puns. He has been writing code since the days of the BBC Micro and still gets a kick out of it.

Craig Loewen is a program manager working at Microsoft on the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Craig has worked on bringing more Linux workflows directly to Windows for developers and IT pros. Craig is a South-African Canadian originally from Toronto, and before working at Microsoft, he studied mechatronics engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Richard Turner, a BSc computer science and microelectronics graduate from Oxford Brookes University, has spent nearly 30 years exploring the world of technology. He has worked at several companies, including the BBC, HBO, and Microsoft, and has run several start-ups. At Microsoft, Richard has helped in building various products such as .NET, Windows Identity, and Visual Studio. Most recently, he helped overhaul the Windows command line and launch Windows Subsystem for Linux, and drove the creation and launch of Windows Terminal.

Benjamin De St Paer-Gotch works as a product manager at Docker. He is focused on developer experiences, tools, and putting things in containers. Having worked at Microsoft and Amazon, Benjamin has experience in both customer-facing and product roles spread across the technology industry.

Martin Aeschlimann is a software engineer on the Visual Studio Code team. He works on WSL remote support as well as on language servers and the Language Server Protocol (LSP).

Christof Marti is a software engineer at Microsoft. He works on Visual Studio Code and Remote-Containers for Visual Studio Code.

Lawrence Gripper is a senior software engineer at Microsoft obsessed with developer productivity and automation. He primarily works with Linux, containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, and distributed systems. With a passion for solving problems and getting things working, Lawrence is an avid contributor to open source projects. In the last 10 years, he's shipped code running at scale covering everything from genomics to air traffic management for drones.

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