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Hi folks, if you happen to be on Windows & enjoy Python, please check out our latest release of PTVS. It's a free/OSS plug-in for VS which supports CPython, IronPython, and the usual Edit/Debug/Profile/etc. now with Django & Client Libs for Linux & MacOS as well. Another cool feature we've added is the Parallel Stack / Watch view and Django template intellisense/debugging.

Disclaimer: PTVS is built by few Python/OSS enthusiasts at msft & I'll be around in case people have any questions!

Cheers.

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I love PTVS, but I keep running into a problem when I debug my code. One time it'll properly highlight in my IDE where an exception (or breakpoint) occurred; the next time it won't, and I have to look in the black Python console window and inspect the stack trace . Using PTVS 1.1.50530.0 with VS2010 Ultimate.

Hmmm... have you filed a bug on this? We're generally pretty responsive (you'll be talking directly to the dev team, not msft support). If you could include a repro that'll be perfect. thx.

OK, will log a bug if I can

It looks freaking awesome. I will definitely try it out! Thanks!

I'd like to check it out, but was not able find anything on the Codeplex site about this - does it work with the Express edition of Visual Studio?

It works with the free VS-Shell runtimes, so in theory it should work with Express editions, but YMMV.

toyg is correct. You can use PTVS w the the free "Integrated Shell" which gives you "Python Express". Please see the installation page on http://pytools.codeplex.com. thx.

Thank you for the info -- I'll give it a whirl.

Express is not extensible, so no. This is a business decision not a technical issue. I personally disagree with it, but then again I don't make these decisions.

This looks fantastic. Do you know if there's any kind of similar implementation for Ruby? Would it be terribly complicated to do something similar for Ruby or a different dynamic language?

I attended a Microsoft talk given 4-6 years ago where they were talking about Iron Ruby development. A quick search shows that they have Visual Studio tools available: http://www.ironruby.net/tools/

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