
What’s really needed is a declarative authoring model that just configures Visual Studio like you need it. Configuring your development environment often becomes a day-long chore. Some organizations might publish these requirements in documents for new hires or even just forward emails. Some organizations add these requirements to their README or CONTRIBUTING documents in their repositories. Developers need to install specific workloads and components in order to build a solution.

Keeping developers’ environments configured across our organizations grows equally complex. As application requirements grow more complex, so do our solutions.
