Visual Studio - “The environment IronPython|2.7-32 appears to be incorrectly configured or missing”

Question

Steps to the Reproduce:

1. Open Visual Studio 2017 (Pro on Windows 10 64-bit)
2. File > New Project > IronPython Application
3. Run the default progra

Answer 1

Download the msi file for IronPython from Github. Then copy the path where it is downloaded and add it to the path in the system environment variable. Then restart visual studio. Select the project and set the python environment to IronPython.