Creating a Django Web App

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Setup - Visual Studio

Create a new project in Visual Studio, look in the python section and Django:

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On your own machines, this will install all of the appropriate packages into your python installation if you select 'Install into Python'. However in College will will need to do a bit more, and instead choose 'install into virtual environment':

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In College we will need see this window:

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You can untick the install packages option, because this will fail on college computers.

Now, find the folder within your project folder:

Vswebapp3.png

Now download this zip file and extract its contents into this folder:

Vswebapp6.png

Now click start in Visual Studio, you should see something like this:

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It should automatically open a browser, it should already point to your web app:

Django3.gif