[Chicago] Python Tools for Visual Studio… 2012 Express?

[Chad Glendenin]

Thank you, Brian. That worked.

In case anybody else runs into this, it turns out, it's actually fairly
well documented. I'm not sure how I managed to overlook this page:

http://pytools.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=Installation%20-%20details&referringTitle=Home



On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:52 AM, Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Chad Glendenin <chad at glendenin.com>
> wrote:
> > I hope this isn't a stupid question, but I've spent some time googling it
> > already, and I'm not finding a good answer. Do the Python Tools for
> Visual
> > Studio (PTVS) work with Visual Studio 2012 Express?
> >
> > I already installed Visual Studio 2012 "Express for Web" in a Windows 7
> VM
> > to play around with VS's TypeScript support. Then I wanted to try PTVS
> (with
> > IronPython), but the installer says something like "Visual Studio 2012 is
> > required" and refuses to install.
> >
> > I thought I already had VS 2012. :-/ Does PTVS require a *non-Express*
> > version of VS 2012?
> >
> > I found some docs about installing PTVS in VS 2010 "integrated shell,"
> > whatever the heck that is, but I've already spent a bunch of time
> installing
> > VS 2012, so I'm nervous about mucking around with it too much and
> breaking
> > what's already working.
> >
> > I appreciate any pointers or advice.
>
> Express does not support plugins, extensions, or whatever they call
> things like PTVS these days. You should be able to just install the
> integrated shell alongside your current setup and then try PTVS again.
> I did something like this a few years back with an IDE project that
> came before PTVS that *required* the integrated shell and couldn't
> work inside the full VS.
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