Winget to the rescue

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Written on September 27, 2022

I’m terrible at updating the various applications, frameworks and packages that are installed on my development machines.

As such I was pretty excited to discover the Winget application which acts as an npm style package manager for my Windows machine - once installed, run the following to get a list of the applications that have updates available for them:

winget upgrade

Then either manually update the relevant applications or do it in-place using:

winget upgrade -e 'Id'

Where 'Id' is the Id as listed by the previous command. See the documentation for more commands.