We’re pleased to announce the release of Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1.1. Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is an open-source plug-in for Visual Studio which supports programming with the Python language. PTVS supports a broad range of features including:

• 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 is a minor update to the 1.1 release (http://pytools.codeplex.com/releases/view/76091) which includes the following bug fixes and enhancements:

• 655 IronPython Interactive fails to interpret Console.WriteLine(1)
• 659 Problem sending comments to interactive (again)
• 660 repl throwing internal exceptions on parsing illegal statements
• 663 More than one additional thread hangs interactive window on Windows 7 64-bit
• 679 Crash when intellisense pops up
• PyKinect: Add missing classifications, description to setup.py
• PyKinect: Add missing enum value for runtime options (new in Kinect SDK final)

+ fixes for a couple of crashing bugs.

We’d like to thank the following people who took the time to report the issues and feedback for this release:

hyh, noahLmiller, rfrizzel, tmaslach