Creating DJango application with Python in Visual Studio

In previous post I have written about creating a basic python application with visual studio. In this post we are going to learn how we can create a DJango application with Python in Visual Studio with the help of python tools for Visual Studio.

What is DJango?

As per wikipedia, DJango is a free open source web application framework written in python which follow ups model view controller architectural pattern.It is maintained by  DJango Software Foundation an independent non profit organization. Django’s primary goal is to ease the creation of complex, database driven websites. DJango emphasizes reusability and plugability   of component and principle of Don’t repeat your self.

Creating DJango application with Visual Studio :

Let’s create first DJango application with Visual Studio and Python tools for Visual Studio. So to create DJango application with we have to create a new project via File->New Project –> DJango project just like following.



Once you click ok it will create a DJango project like following.



Now it’s time to create our first application. So right click FirstDjango folder and add new DJango App.



Now once you click on DJango app it will open a box like below.



Now its time to install Python Environment to application via right click on python environment in solution explorer and select environment.



Now once you click OK it will add python environment to application.



Now right click python 2.7 and right click it will open up a popup like below.



Once you click on Install Python Package it will open up a dialog like following.


Once you click OK It will install DJango package in Visual Studio after installing lot of files it may take 5 to 10 minutes.



It’s done!! run your first application with DJango with f5 and following you see in browser.



Woohoo!! your first python web application ready. Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more..

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ASP.NET Web API vs WCF

With Microsoft.NET Stack there are lots of way to create service like ASP.NET Web Service, WCF(Windows Communication Foundation) service and now ASP.NET Web API. The developer often get confused mainly between WCF Service and Web API. So I thought it is a good idea to write a blog post to about differences between ASP.NET Web API and WCF Service.

Difference between ASP.NET Web API  and WCF Service:

1. WCF services support multiple transport support like HTTP,TCP,UDP,MSMQ and allow switching between them while ASP.NET Web API is used only http based services best suited for http service and mobile based application back end service. It is an quick and easy way to create http service.
2. WCF support multiple encodings like Text,MTOM while ASP.NET Web API support wide range of media types like XML,JSON etc.
3. WCF Service support Request-Reply, One way and duplex exchange patterns while HTTP service only support Request/Return pattern.

When to choose? What? WCF or Web API

• Choose WCF if you want to support any other transport protocol then HTTP.
• Choose Web API when you want to create resource oriented services very quickly.
• Choose Web API when you want to serve wide variety of clients like browsers, mobile etc.
• Choose WCF when you want to support message queuing, one way messaging and duplicate message communication.

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Creating first python application in Visual Studio

Before some time I have blogged about Python tools in Visual Studio and explained how we install python tools with visual studio and start developing python application with the one of greatest editor in class Visual Studio. In this post we are going to learn how we can create a python application in Visual Studio.

First check whether Python Interpreters are install on your machine or not?

First step for creating python application with Visual Studio is to check whether Python interpreters are installed or not not. To Check this after installing Python tools for Visual Studio go to Tools menu –> Python Environments and it will show a list of python environments available.



If it is not installed, you need to download from http://www.python.org/. I have already installed Python 3.3 so its showing there.

Creating first python application:

Once you install Python tools for visual studio it will also have options to create python application in visual studio. So go to file menu –> new project options->templates-> Select python it will show all the python options available for visual studio just like below.



There you have few options like below.

• From Existing Python Code
• Python Application
• Django Project
• Python MPI Application
• IronPython Application
• IronPython WPF application
• IronPython Silverlight Web page
• IronPython Windows application

As we need to create a simple application for python we are going to our first application with Python application.Once create project it will create application like following.



Now open that PythonApplication1.Py and write following code.



And now run application via pressing f5.



That’s it we are able to run our first application in Visual Studio. Woohoo!! Hope you like it. Stay tuned for more..

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