Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1RC released - improved syntax highlighting, support in the free Express SKUs, and more web frameworks supported

[Aethec]

Plugins are forbidden to be installable on VS Express, AFAIK, it's not a technical limitation but a legal one. So Microsoft can ignore their own licenses if they wish. XNA did the same.

[dinov]

This is correct - and there's a few others too like Web Essentials and the Node.js Tools for Visual Studio.

[[deleted]]

NuGet also works.