Mastering Django: Core

Django development in Visual Studio

Microsoft have put a lot of effort into ensuring developing Python applications in VS is as simple and headache free as possible. The killer feature for beginning programmers is full IntelliSense for all Python and Django modules. This will accelerate your learning more than any other feature as you don't have to go through documentation looking for module implementations.

The other major aspects of Python/Django programming that VS makes really simple are:

• Integration of Django management commands
• Easy installation of Python packages
• Easy installation of new Django apps

Integration of Django management commands

All of Django's common management commands are available from the Project menu (Figure G.10):

Figure G.10: ...