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Microsoft has posted to its Codeplex repository site a check develop of Python Resources for Visual Studio, a no cost,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, open-source plug-in for VS 2010.The add-in, developed by Microsoft;s Technical Computing Group, “enables developers to use all the major productivity features of Visual Studio to construct Python code using either CPython or IronPython and adds new features such as using High Performance Computing clusters to scale your code,” according to the Codeplex web page for the project. “Together with one of the standard distros, you can turn Visual Studio into a powerful Technical Computing IDE (integrated development environment), the website adds.PTVS,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, as it is known for short,Microsoft Office Professional 2007, is not a Python distribution,Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, as Microsoft notes. Instead it works with existing Python and IronPython ones.(Last year,Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007, Microsoft decided not to continue developing IronPython and IronRuby as Microsoft products, and made the code bases available to the community.)Microsoft is delivering Beta 1 in conjunction with PyCon, which kicked off on March 7. The first beta includes support for core IDE features and debugging and profiling. Beta 2, due in summer 2011, will add Azure and the “Big Data” support via an Azure implementation of Google;s MapReduce (according to reader “pnewhook”). Update: Microsoft officials said the original timetable descriptions were off. Here;s what;s coming, as of Beta 2: Support for Cloud Computing (the ability to run compute-intensive Python code in Azure); and
support for Dryad (large-scale, data intensive parallel programming using Python code).The target release to manufacturing date for PTVS is fall 2011, according to the Internet page.(Thanks to Microsoft;s @jon_perera for the pointer to PTVS.)