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I recently installed PTVS as I come from C# and I am used to Visual Studio. I though that PTVS had a GUI creation support like Windows Forms in C#, I am pretty disappointed as I need to program several Windows applications, and I like python.

Is there any plugin to add this functionality to PTVS? do they plan to program it in a near future?

To widen my question: Does it exist a real windows application IDE in python, with an "easy" GUI designer like Visual Studio?

Before blaming me, you have to know that I already tried BOA, Dabo, SPE Python Eclipse and Netbeans plugins, without success... I don't want a 0.7 project version from 2007... Is there something solid in there? I can't find it

thanks

Johan Råde
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From what I'm reading here and here PTVS has WPF support if you use IronPython. Here's a page that may be helpful too http://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming. Personally I'd use Qt with PyQt or PySide, you can use QtDesigner to make your forms.

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  • Both of your solutions are great, I tried PTVS with WPF support and it is just what I was looking for thanks –  Oct 23 '11 at 11:47
  • I still have a question though, WPF is html code ? what is it exactly? a web app framework? I read [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation) but I am still confused –  Oct 23 '11 at 11:47
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I always thought #develop was a good IDE with a good forms editor, if you're willing to use IronPython and .NET.

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