1. Django in the real world
Susan Ibach
Christopher Harrison

2. Susan Ibach @hockeygeekgirl
Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Canada
Data, code and cloud
Longtime MCT
Blogs at Canadian Developer Connection
Runner and hockey mom
@hockeygeekgirl

3. Christopher Harrison @geektrainer
Senior Content Producer - Microsoft Virtual Academy
Web guy
<3 OSS
Long-time Microsoft Certified Trainer
Periodic blogger (blog.geektrainer.com)
Marathoner, husband, father of one four-legged child
@geektrainer

4. Agenda 1 Creating and managing a Django application 3
Forms and next steps 2
Security

5. Creating a Django application

6. Creating a Django application
What are we about to create?
What are the requirements?
Why use Django?

7. What are we about to create?
Application to manage a conference
Display sessions, speakers and tracks

8. What are the requirements?
Easy to navigate
Partial page updates where appropriate
Allow people to submit sessions
They must register first
Allow conference organizers to easily modify data
Manage tracks
Approve sessions
Host in Azure

9. Why use Django? Built-in administration page Automatic form generation
Easy to manage users and security
Minimize code and effort

10. Installing Python & Django

11. Creating the project
Getting started

12. Options for creating a Django project
Use a Visual Studio template
Use django-admin

13. What is django-admin Command-line utility for managing Django
Create applications and apps
Manage super users
Migrate databases

14. Why use django-admin It's what the Django people use
Ability to use templates
Server-side libraries
Authentication
Security
Client-side frameworks
Single page apps
Bootstrap

15. Using django-admin and Visual Studio
Create empty Django project in Visual Studio
Delete everything from the folder (except the proj & sln files)
Use django-admin to create the project
django-admin startproject <project-name> <containing-folder>

16. Creating a Django project

17. Creating the app

18. Using django-admin to create an app
Why?
Automatically creates:
models.py
views.py
migrations
Usage
django-admin startapp <app-name> <folder-name>
After creation
Include folder in Visual Studio
Add app as installed apps in settings.py

19. Creating a Django app

20. Creating the models

21. Object model Title Abstract Session Name Title Bio Speaker Title*
Name
Title
Bio
Speaker
Title
Description
Track 1 1

22. Creating the models

23. Creating the database

24. Database management review
makemigrations
Create a new migration, this creates a package that contains all of the changes to be made to the database based on the code changes in our models
sqlmigrate
Display the SQL statements that will be applied by a migration
migrate
Update the database with the specified migration package

25. Getting the database setup