[Answer]-How do I publish a django web app to Google App Engine from Visual Studio 2012

You should not try to develop a standalone Django application and then try to convert it to GAE. There are many differences in running Django inside GAE, and it’s best to start from there in the first place.

I don’t know why it’s important to you to be able to run your app “inside” VS. Again, you should use the GAE development server – you can continue to write your code in VS, and the devserver will even reload when it detects code changes. You might be able to configure VS to use the GAE devserver instead of the Django one, but it sounds like a lot of unnecessary fiddling.