Reputation: 18196

Python IDE built into Visual Studio 2008?

Hi I develop in Visual Studio 2008 a lot and would like to find an addin like vsphp which enables intellisense and debugging in Visual Studio. Is IronStudio what I am looking for? As far as I understand IronStudio is a Plugin for .NET.

If there is no Plugin for Visual Studio 2008 whats a great IDE for a python newbee who loves Visual Studio (hate netbeans and eclipse sorry just don't feel the love)

Also if IronPython Studio is an IDE do I want the Isolated or Integrated Version? I don't seem to understand the name.

I installed integrated and got this: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/5910/Jing/2009-02-11_1750.png :( no console like here: http://www.codeplex.com/IronPythonStudio

Upvotes: 16

Answers (10)

Fscarpa58

Reputation: 1

Three different things - Python Tools for Visual Studio - IronPython - IronPython Studio

Only this last (I think) allows for visual Gui design. but it is dead

Upvotes: 0

Jon Cage

Reputation: 37458

I had a similar dilemma when I first started writing in Python. I couldn't find any plugins for VS so I tried a few alternatives:

IDLE - comes packaged with Python and works but felt very cludgy to me
Wingware Python IDE - not free, but seemed to have pretty good debugging capabilities
e-texteditor - has nice syntax highlighting but running Python script from it frequently causes issues.
Eclipse with PyDev - is what I now use - syntax highlighting, auto-completion, debugging capabilities etc. etc.

There's a couple of reviews of options that might be of use to you:

Personally, I'd recommend Eclipse + PyDev :-)

[Edit] Iron Python looks pretty cool - might have to check that one out!

[Update 25/04/2013] I just use PyCharm these days. Absolutely fantastic IDE and it even understands DJango

Upvotes: 6

Aniruddha Kale

Reputation: 1

Why don't you try the Aptana studio. It is similar to the Eclipse and PyDev. But is an separate IDE based upon python and web development.

Upvotes: 0

Erwin Julius

Reputation: 539

IronPython and Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) are different things.

PTVS http://pytools.codeplex.com/ is a free & open source plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft's Developer Division. It allows you to code python using Visual Studio, gaining the benefits to use all the major productivity features of Visual Studio.

PTVS is compatible with IronPython and CPython, which are Python distributions where you run your code.

CPython is the traditional Python distribution while IronPython http://ironpython.net is an alternate that allows you to run python over .Net and allows you to user other .Net libraries on your applications.

Upvotes: 1

Gourab

Reputation: 21

Python tools for Visual Studio 2010 is out now http://ironpython.codeplex.com/releases/view/41236

Upvotes: 2

RandomNickName42

Reputation: 5955

IronPython tools for Visual Studio 2010. is fairly well intergrated. I know you asked for 2008 but now that 2010 is out ;)

Upvotes: 4

Yes - that Jake.

Reputation: 17121

Provided that you have Visual Studio 2008 and the VS 2k8 Shell Integrated Redistributable package, IronPython Studio Integrated will plug into the VS 2k8 IDE.

Visual Studio 2008 Shell (Integrated)

Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 Shell (Integrated)

Upvotes: 5

fred

Reputation:

Java based IDE's are no good they tend to be fat, slow, and unpolished. Eclipse has a poor programming paradigm that is unnecesarrily confusing. The many IDE vendors made a mistake by quitting their native products and basing them instead on Eclipse. They can't differentiate themselves and the experience is awful. Real shame actually. VS needs competition but they all rolled over and died.

Upvotes: 5