The extension, known as IronPython Tools for Visual Studio, offers code completion and templates for class libraries, console applications, WinForms, WPF, and Silverlight.

Microsoft is backing IronPython because it exemplifies just how well the .NET Framework can handle dynamic runtime languages. Supposedly, IronPython runs as fast as the C-based implementation of ...

The shipment of IronPython 1.0 this week marks a milestone for the long-running project, aimed at developing a Python implementation on Microsoft's .Net platform, and for developers' goal of ...