What is in Visual Studio 2015 for a Python developer
Hello!
With the version of Visual Studio 2015 Community , Microsoft first offered developers to use the fully functional version of its powerful development tool for free. Let me remind you that the functionality of Visual Studio 2015 Community almost fully provides the functionality of the Professional version , but has some licensing restrictions for use in commercial development.
Visual Studio 2015 Community, like the rest of the tool version, is extensible thanks to the Visual Studio Marketplace and all official tool updates. That is, a huge, ever-increasing amount of functionality is available to developers for free. This also applies to Python development tools..
Python support will become available if you check the corresponding item when installing the environment. This also applies to CPython, PyPy, IronPython, IntelliSense support, interactive debugging, integration, and other Visual Studio for Python features:
Easy editing
Tooltips, snippets, auto-substitution
Required
pip, PyPI libraries and virtual environment support for managing your projects and dependencies.
Debugging
You can interactively diagnose problems in your code. Visual Studio helps you step through your code, view and change states, and interact with the program regardless of the operating system.
Interactivity
The familiar REPL works on data in a debugged process, allowing you to evaluate complex expressions on the fly and redefine classes and functions. Interactive Window will immediately display results, errors, graphs and pictures. Integration with IPython allows you to provide the developer with a powerful platform for processing data.
Code Management
With Team Explorer, you can manage your Git / TFS projects, pending changes and branches. There is also the opportunity to try many other code management extensions available for Visual Studio.
Unit testing The
correct operation of your code can be verified directly in Visual Studio. You can view, edit, run, and debug unit tests from Test Windows.
Conclusion
Python Tools is a completely free extension developed and supported by Microsoft with the participation of the community. You can visit the page on GitHub to watch or participate in their development.
useful links
- Visual Studio 2015: Free Developer Offerings
- Additional and free tools and services in Visual Studio Dev Essentials
- Laboratory work on the development, testing and lifecycle management of software for Visual Studio 2015
- Laboratory work on the development of universal applications on Windows 10