Set Computer in Developer Mode
Welcome to the Braintek video tutorials. My name’s Greg, owner of Braintek. Today, I’m going to show you how to setup your Windows machine to be in developer mode so that you can install unsigned, developed apps. So this would be useful if you were a beta tester, for example, for an app. Generally, as the developer, your developer machine would already be ready to go, but if you are testing on some other machine, this procedure will be very helpful to help other users test your program. So let’s get started. First thing we need to do is we need to have your Windows developer account. I’m on a Windows 10 machine, so we’re going to do that. So we’re going to open up PowerShell on the computer that you’re going to do this on and when you do it, you’re going to run PowerShell as administrator so click ‘Yes’ when it asks. Alright, so here’s PowerShell. [Type:“Show-WindowsDeveloperRegistration”] Okay, and in a moment, it should – there you go, enable developer mode for 10. Now, my machine is already in developer mode, but here, you would login with your credentials. Second, most likely your app is going to be unsigned so when you submit it to Microsoft, it will become signed with your certificates so we need to do [type:“set-executionpolicy remotesigned”]. You’re going to say yes to all of those changes – a – and that’s it. Then from here, you’ll be able to install apps. Now there’s a couple different ways you can do that. You can either do it the hard way or the easy way. So the easy way: let’s go find one that I’ve got on here. So here’s an app that I’ve been working on called Scale Forms and you can come in here to this ‘Add-AppDevPackage’ and you can right-click and run with PowerShell and that’ll install it on your computer. The other way you can do it is you can do it from PowerShell itself so you can browse to that folder and then you could type out that ‘Add-AppDevPackage.ps1’. Do it after you do this. this is much easier to just right-click on it and run PowerShell. So that’ll help you install your programs. I’d like to thank you for watching the Braintek video tutorials. Check out our other videos on the Braintek channel. Become a subscriber and have a great day.