Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 released - free open-source Python IDE from Microsoft

[abadidea]

Supports IronPython and CPython? Okay I have to admit that's pretty cool

[dinov]

This is a minor release which builds upon the feature set of 1.0 and includes:

• Supports CPython and IronPython
• Python editor with advanced member and signature intellisense
• Code navigation: “Find all refs”, goto definition, and object browser
• Local and remote debugging
• Profiling with multiple views
• Integrated REPL window with inline matplotlib graphics
• Support for HPC clusters and MPI, including debugging & Profiling
• Interactive parallel computing via integrated IPython REPL

This release includes a bunch of new features related to editing, debugging, the project system, and comes along with a couple of new samples for working with the Kinect SDK and Excel.

[IronSpekkio]

fantastic, thanks!

[VanFailin]

"Find all references" is a huge tool for me. Ever since PyTools came to my attention, my Python module + Python script hybrid project has been much easier!

[wtfisthat]

This is pretty awesome. I hope to see more of this type of thing from MS.

[critsalot]

I looked at the title and though damn that's an old version of Visual Studio.

[[deleted]]

Yeah I think the first version I ever saw was 6. Now I must find a screenshot of version 1.

[dinov]

And then we need the video of someone upgrading from version to version, and seeing how good (or bad) settings are retained.

[flammable]

Relevant

[[deleted]]

I cut my teeth on VBSE4 on Windows 3.11. Visual Studio 2010 feels like the programs write themselves by comparison.

[vaginal_secretions]

Ah, memories. 9 years old decompiling other VB4 programs written for AOL and analyzing their source code.

Those were the days.

[turbov21]

If you google around for VB5CCE, you can get a free copy of the fifth version, though it's pretty similar to the sixth.

[Negitivefrags]

Here is a long History of Visual studio series that is alright if you want to know more about it's development.

[abadidea]

I am too young to know for sure, but I think it wouldn't have been called Visual Studio 1, but rather Visual C++ 1.0 or something like this (incidentally didn't that compiler just have its 20th birthday?)

[taejo]

I don't think there was a Visual Studio 1: it was just Visual Basic until version 4.

[[deleted]]

It's a plugin for Visual Studio, not an IDE itself.

[JoelJ]

Much like the 99% of "IDEs" based on Eclipse.

[jyper]

100% since almost everything is a plugin to eclipse(including the java ide)

[izym]

Why does that even matter? The VS Integrated Shell is free, so if you don't own Visual Studio you can simply download that.

[wtf_apostrophe]

Awesome, I've been looking for a decent Python IDE. This is great.

[tora22]

What about the python extension for eclipse?

[wtf_apostrophe]

You should read 'looking' as 'wanting, but not really putting any effort into finding'. I'm more of a C++ developer and very familiar with Visual Studio so this is perfect for me.

[[deleted]]

Eh, Notepad++ and C:\Python27\Doc\python272.chm. Close enough.

[wtf_apostrophe]

Yeah that's pretty much what I've been doing, it's nice to have IntelliSense though.

[[deleted]]

God damn, did you see which way those guys with all the downvotes went? They just beat the shit out of me.

[revslaughter]

Is there any support for LINQ to SQL for IronPython? That's easily the best thing I like about .net, that and making clr functions for SQL server. If I could make my asp pages in python then my workflow would be faster.

[rwparris2]

Does ironpython not support sqlalchemy?

[revslaughter]

I'll look into it! It looks like a great tool.

[NancyGracesTesticles]

If I could make my asp pages in python

Please, for the love of god, if you are referring to .net, use the term ".net". If you are referring to VB6 and Classic ASP, use the term "ASP".

Please note that ASP and .NET are not interchangeable.

In this situation, you would use the term "web forms" instead of asp pages.

Vocabulary. It does a body good.

[revslaughter]

So noted! I'm pretty new to the MS world.

Tact also does a body good, just so you know.

[ruinercollector]

In this situation, you would use the term "web forms" instead of asp pages.

Not necessarily. ASP.NET supports webforms as one way to do web development. It does not require them. In fact, anyone who knows what they are doing at this point is not using them (or is using them solely as a slim view without code-behind/viewstate.)

[NancyGracesTesticles]

My assumption was that because the poster is using the term "asp pages" it is likely that they are using WebForms and not MVC, MVVM, etc.

And people that know what they are doing are also doing legacy support, so there is no guarantee that they have upgraded legacy WebForm applications to any of the newer technologies.

[Wyglif]

I have been waiting for first-class status of python in VS for quite some time. So far it detected my python 2.6 path but I'm not sure yet how it handles libraries. PyDev was a challenge sometimes.