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Please visit our updated documentation at aka.ms/PTVSDocs

Our wiki is currently in the process of being migrated. Most content is available at the new site, and changes here will be lost when we replace these pages with redirects.

Getting Started

Video Tutorial

• Installation Instructions
• Feature Matrix
• Overview Videos

Contributing

• Contributing to PTVS
• Build Instructions for PTVS

Tutorials

• Bottle and Azure Table Storage on Azure
• Bottle and MongoDB on Azure
• Flask and Azure Table Storage on Azure
• Flask and MongoDB on Azure
• Django and SQL Database on Azure
• Django and MySQL on Azure

Features in Depth

• Editing

• Intellisense

• Navigation

• Code Formatting

• Refactoring

• Rename

• Extract Method

• Add Import

• Remove Imports

• Interactive REPL

• Switching Scopes

• Send Code to Interactive

• Using IPython with PTVS

• Debugging

• Basic Debugging

• Debugging with a Project

• Debugging without a Project

• The Debug Interactive Window

• Remote Debugging for Windows, Linux and OS X

• Remote Debugging for Microsoft Azure Web Sites

• Python/C++ Mixed-Mode Debugging

• Profiling

• Projects

  • Project Types
  • Django
  • Web Projects
  • Cloud Service Project
  • Working without Projects
  • New Project from Existing Code
  • Linked Files
  • Search Paths
  • References
  • Python Environments
  • Managing Requirements

• Unit Tests

• PyLint

• Cookiecutter

• Azure SDK for Python

• Kinect for Python

• wfastcgi (on PyPI)

Release Notes

See the downloads page for each release to read the release notes.

Other Pages

• Where is PTVS installed?