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Mastering Django: Core

Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
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1. Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Appendix G. Developing Django with Visual Studio

Regardless of what you might hear trolling around the Internet, Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) has always been an extremely capable and powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE). As a developer for multiple platforms, I have dabbled in just about everything else out there and have always ended up back with VS.

The biggest barriers to wider uptake of VS in the past have been (in my opinion):

  • Lack of good support for languages outside of Microsoft's ecosystem (C++, C# and VB)
  • Cost of the fully featured IDE. Previous incarnations of Microsoft 'free' IDE's have fallen a bit short of being useful for professional development

With the release of Visual Studio Community Editions a few years ago and the more recent release of Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS), this situation has changed dramatically for the better. So much so that I now do all my development in VS-both Microsoft technologies and Python and Django...

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