Python

Sho is an interactive environment for data analysis and scientific computing that lets you seamlessly connect scripts (in IronPython) with compiled code (in .NET) to enable fast and flexible prototyping. The environment includes powerful and efficient libraries for linear algebra as well as data…

Not all Microsoft technologies and projects come out of large development teams with huge budgets and equally huge objectives. There are in fact a variety of very useful technologies which are fairly low-key and the result of small development efforts. "Gestalt" is a technology that…

Python Tools for Visual Studio 1.1 is now available in Alpha! PTVS turns VS into an IDE for Python. PTVS a free, open source plug-in for Visual Studio 2010 from Microsoft's Developer Division. PTVS enables developers to use all the major productivity features of Visual Studio to build Python code…

As is commonly known, Microsoft is developing IronPython and IronRuby, .NET implementations of the popular open-source programming languages Python and Ruby. While it is clear that Microsoft wants to attract existing Python and Ruby developers to .NET, the role of IronPython and IronRuby for…

ISV Architect Evangelist Bruce Kyle of Microsoft and MVP Stuart Celarier explore the new languages features in C#. It's a Whirlwind Tour of the important language features of C# 4. Stuart describes each major feature and why it is useful. But doesn't get into best practices nor suggested…

Learn how to build and deploy almost anything to Windows Azure. This video uses a Python web application as an example.

Josh Holmes caught up with Dave Donaldson to talk about the cool project that he started back in 2005 called CodeKeep. This is a fantastic example of a passionate guy putting up a project that everyone can benefit from with no financial motivation. This is one of the longer…

Tim Heuer had a chance to sit down with John Lam and Tomas Matousek from the Common Language Runtime team. John finally breaks his silence publically about what he has been working on since coming to Microsoft earlier this year. He explains what the concepts around the Dynamic Language Runtime…

In this interview Kevin Hazzard, C# MVP based in Richmond, Virginia, discusses with Zhiming Xue dynamic languages like Python and Ruby, the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) from Microsoft and the next generation of C# that’s becoming a dynamic language.  He explains that the DLR as “the…

IPython (http://ipython.scipy.org/) enables parallel computations to be performed interactively. IPython parallel jobs can now be started using Windows HPC Server 2008, which makes it easy to get starting with interactive parallel computing on Windows.  In this screencast, we show the basic…