Life is Like a Box of Chocolatey

Discover how to automate your Windows development environment setup using Chocolatey and Boxstarter in this comprehensive 52-minute conference talk by David Gardiner, an experienced package author and Chocolatey.org moderator. Learn to script your desktop, creating a fully configured developer environment from a vanilla Windows install in minutes. Explore the process of wrapping tools and applications in Chocolatey packages, avoiding common pitfalls, and gaining insights into the package moderation process for confident publishing to Chocolatey.org. Master the orchestration of package installations, including handling reboots, with Boxstarter. Understand how these techniques can be applied not only to rebuilding dev boxes but also to simplifying software distribution and upgrades for customers. Suitable for Windows-based developers of all levels, this talk aims to increase coding time by streamlining software installation and configuration processes.

Introduction
Other tools
Chocolate
Chocolateorg
Installing Chocolate
Package Management
Creating Packages
Creating a Package
Package Builder
Package moderation
How does someone elses software work
Tips for creating packages
Commercial editions
Box Starter
Using Box Starter
Enabling Windows Update
Running Box Data against a virtual machine
Box Starter deprecated
Wrap up