What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to PTVS, provides a high-level overview of PTVS and the interaction between Visual Studio and a Python interpreter.

Chapter 2, Python Tools in Visual Studio, provides an in-depth analysis of the tools, type checking, inner functionalities, and automatisms (IntelliSense and REPL) of PTVS.

Chapter 3, Day-to-day Coding Tools, talks about browsing through the code and the flexible setting of Python environments. It also talks about refactoring and the debugging process.

Chapter 4, Django in PTVS, shows how to harness the powerful Visual Studio IDE and tooling to speed up Django development.

Chapter 5, Advanced Django in PTVS, provides an in-depth look at remote task management and schema migrations using the third-party Python libraries Fabric and South.

Chapter 6, IPython and IronPython, provides an overview of the IPython library and how it's integrated in Visual Studio. It also provides an introduction to IronPython and its integration with the .NET framework.