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Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Jeff Martin
Book Image

Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Jeff Martin

Overview of this book

Visual Studio 2015 is the premier tool for developers targeting the Microsoft platform. Learning how to effectively use this technology can enhance your productivity while simplifying your most common tasks, allowing you more time to focus on your project. Visual Studio 2015 is packed with improvements that increase productivity, and this book walks you through each one in succession to help you smooth your workflow and get more accomplished. From customization and the interface to code snippets and debugging, the Visual Studio upgrade expands your options — and this book is your fast-track guide to getting on board quickly. Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook will introduce you to all the new areas of Visual Studio and how they can quickly be put to use to improve your everyday development tasks. With this book, you will learn not only what VS2015 offers, but what it takes to put it to work for your projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Visual Studio 2015 Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Integrating Python into Visual Studio


Python was created by Guido van Rossum in the early 1990s, and quickly developed a following among developers across the world. Python is a dynamic, general purpose language, well suited for all types of projects. Among its many features are support for multiple paradigms (object-oriented, functional, and so on), a rapid development cycle (thanks to its interpretive nature), and its structured approach to syntax.

Microsoft has released Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) so that those of us on the Microsoft platform can easily try and use Python within Visual Studio. Whether you would like to sample Python or create a new application from the ground up, you will be able to do so while using tools with which you are already familiar. In this recipe, we will see how Visual Studio can become a highly tuned Python development environment.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we first need to install PTVS. A link to the PTVS installer is included in VS2015. Open...