Python Tools for Visual Studio Documentation

Getting Started

  1. Install Python and libraries (if you haven’t already): Getting interpreters & libraries – more details

  2. Install Visual Studio 2010 (if you haven’t already): Installation – more details

  3. For MPI development install MS-MPI: Download the MS-MPI redistributable

  4. For cluster development install HPC Pack and the HPC Pack SDK: HPC Pack Express, HPC Pack SDK

  5. Install Python Tools for Visual Studio from the Download tab and you’re ready to go: Python Tools for Visual Studio releases

Features in Depth

For an overview of the Visual Studio integration, including editor enhancements, the debugger and profiler, and the REPL integration, look no further than the detailed walk-through of IDE features.

For development at scale using MPI and IPython on a cluster, you should read the detailed walk-though guide of HPC and Cloud Features.

Release Notes

Beta1 (March, 2011)

  • A race condition sometimes causes local MPI debugging to miss breakpoints

Last edited Mar 8, 2011 at 12:13 AM by joxn, version 6

Comments

pythonicon Jan 24 at 2:33 PM 
Visual Studio is Microsoft's flagship product, perhaps second only to MSOffice. And now it can debug python code,is such an amazing tool to use. Nothing beats Visual Studio as the true programmer's most powerful IDE. And I am even a Unix command line + vim maniac with a dvorak layout keyboard for optimized finger speed.