NWSGI 2 RC 2 and IronPython Extensions for Visual Studio 2010

By Michael Foord -
Jeff Hardy is a big cheese in the IronPython world. One of his older projects is NWSGI, an implementation of the Python WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface) specification for .NET. This allows Python WSGI applications to run on IronPython and be served by IIS.

One of his newer projects is an extension of Visual Studio 2010 (still in beta) to provide Python syntax highlighting and IronPython support.

Jeff has recently announced progress in both projects.
The final release candidate of NWSGI 2.0 is now available. Except for version numbers, this is what will become NWSGI 2.0 as soon as IronPython 2.6 is released.

NWSGI 2.0 Release Candidate 2 includes all of the features of NWSGI 2.0 Release Candidate 1, and adds support configuring tracing, lightweight scopes, and the profiler. It is built against IronPython 2.6 RC3.

The following issues are fixed in this release:
 Lately, I’ve been experimenting with the new editor APIs in Visual Studio 2010 to build some simple extensions to make Python editing a little better. Helpfully, IronPython exposes most of the complicated infrastructure (the tokenizer) to make the job easy. The documentation for the new editor APIs is still a bit weak; hopefully that will improve by the final release. In the meantime, the examples are the best source of information. There also a series of blog posts by an Mike Feingold about the NDjango editor for VS2010 that form a great end-to-end example.

Download & Installation
Download IronPython Extensions for Visual Studio 2010 (and the source code; Ms-PL as always) from my BitBucket repository or from the Visual Studio Gallery (direct link). For direct downloads, just run (double-click) the .vsix file to install it into Visual Studio. Otherwise, you can use the extension manager (search for "IronPython") and install it directly from Visual Studio.

Features
The extensions provide three features so far: syntax highlighting, brace matching, and outlining.

In the future I'm planning on adding project support, templates, and (most difficult of all) IntelliSense.

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