Implementing DSC v3 in a few Windows developer tools.

[denelon]

I'm aggregating a bit of the work towards WinGet Configuration and DSC v3. I've filed a few issues.

I would be super excited to get DSC v3 support in a few of our most popular products and have sold references for external folks who we would like to start adopting DSC v3. We're going to need the "zero to hero" documentation on how to build/test DSC v3 implementations, and I'd really love to make sure we have WinGet Configuration files for all the GitHub projects. We've recently updated our guidance: How to author a WinGet Configuration file | Microsoft Learn

• Experimental feature to use PowerShell DSC v3 microsoft/winget-cli#3767
• WinGet becomes a DSC v3 resource microsoft/winget-cli#4103
  User Settings
  Admin Settings
  Package Management
• DSC v3 in Windows Terminal microsoft/terminal#15862
  Actions
  Schemes
  Themes
• DSC v3 support in PowerToys microsoft/PowerToys#37276
  Find my mouse
  Zoomit
• pwsh as DSCv3 resource PowerShell#24935
  $PROFILE

[Gijsreyn]

Hi @denelon, thanks for opening up the discussion. Perhaps we can add the dotnet CLI to it, which I opened up in the past already: dotnet/sdk#44325

I'm not sure if I can be of full use at the moment to do the programmatic part, so in that case, I would be very eager to write documentation on it.

[denelon]

Documentation is every bit as important as the example code! If there isn't a good "zero to hero" guide, it makes it very difficult to adopt. I believe @AmelBawa-msft will be looking at one of these along with guidance from @SteveL-MSFT next week as a hackathon project.

[denelon]

I just updated:

• DSC Resource for oh-my-posh JanDeDobbeleer/oh-my-posh#4340

I'm a huge fan of oh-my-posh, and it would be awesome to have that in a WinGet configuration file as well.

[denelon]

It's hackathon week here at Microsoft in our organization. @AmelBawa-msft just did a demo where he ran winget configure light.winget and winget configure dark.winget and they both succeed using DSCv3 with his hackathon version of Windows Terminal apply the theme changes to Windows Terminal!!!

It's also an internal build of WinGet (1.11.180-preview). I think we're close to pushing that preview (or a newer one) out.

We will likely have lots of feedback for documentation, and some learning curve pain to share and improve on.