# Visual Studio 2013 runs PyFR

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**Category:** Just Starting\
**Created:** [19 December 2015 19:18 UTC](https://pyfr.discourse.group/t/visual-studio-2013-runs-pyfr/98 "2015-12-19T19:18:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![nnunn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@nnunn](https://pyfr.discourse.group/u/nnunn)\
**Post date:** [19 December 2015 19:18 UTC](https://pyfr.discourse.group/t/visual-studio-2013-runs-pyfr/98/1 "2015-12-19T19:18:55Z")

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Hi Peter and Freddie,  
Good news: I wanted to step through your PyFR User Guide demos, but having never touched Python, was not sure how to proceed. Only experience is with Visual Studio/C++ on Win64.

Then I bumped into Microsoft’s Python Tools for Visual Studio ([Microsoft PTVS](https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS/wiki)), switched PyFR to develop mode (python setup.py develop), loaded the PyFR directory structure as a VS project, and was able to step though the entire execution of both demos (2d Couette flow and Euler Vortex). For fun, I then tried partitioning with metis, and mpiexec -n 2 pyfr run… and all went well (4 x vanilla GK110 Titans under the bonnet).

thanks for the unexpected Christmas present!  
Nigel