Read the latest updates about all things Python at Microsoft
January 7, 2020Jan 7, 202001/7/20We are happy to announce that the January 2020 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This release includes Kernel selection in Jupyter notebooks, performance improvements of Jupyter notebooks editor , auto-activation of the terminal on load (thanks Igor Aleksanov!) and fixes to rebuilding ctags.
November 18, 2019Nov 18, 201911/18/19 We are pleased to announce that the November 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we closed 60 issues, including an add imports “quick fix” when using the Python Language Server, Altair plot support and line numbers in the Notebook Editor. Keep on reading to learn more!
October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19We are pleased to announce that the October 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we addressed 97 issues, including native editing of Jupyter Notebooks, a button to run a Python file in the terminal, and linting and import improvements with the Python Language Server.
October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19Today, we're excited to announce the first release of native Jupyter notebook support inside VS Code through the Python extension that shipped today! This brings together the interactivity of Jupyter Notebooks and the power of VS Code, offering a brand-new way for data scientists and developers to experiment and work with data efficiently.
September 20, 2019Sep 20, 201909/20/19DjangoCon 2019 is happening next week in San Diego and Microsoft is pleased to be supporting the conference as Gold sponsors this year. We will have some members from our Python team, our Azure Cloud Advocates, and the PostgreSQL team. Be sure to check out our talks from our team during the conference, and come by the booth!
September 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19We are pleased to announce that the September 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This was a short release where we closed 35 issues, including improvements to the Python Language Server and to Jupyter Notebook cell debugging, as well as detection of virtual environment creation.
August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19Today, we are releasing Visual Studio 2019 (16.3 Preview 2), which contains newly-added pytest support a re-worked unittest experience for Python users. Our latest updates apply to both Python Projects and Open Folder workspaces. In this post, we'll take a closer look at this new experience.
August 6, 2019Aug 6, 201908/6/19We are pleased to announce that the August 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we closed a total of 76 issues including Jupyter Notebook cell debugging, introducing an Insiders program, improvements to auto-indentation and to the Python Language Server,
June 25, 2019Jun 25, 201906/25/19We are pleased to announce that the June 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we closed a total of 70 issues including a plot viewer with the Python Interactive window, parallel tests with pytest, and indentation of run selection in the terminal.
May 28, 2019May 28, 201905/28/19We are pleased to announce that the May 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we closed a total of 42 issues including IntelliSense in the Python Interactive Window and additional improvements to the Python Language Server. Check out the full list of improvements in our changelog.
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December 12, 2016Dec 12, 201612/12/16This week, those of you using Visual Studio 2017 RC will be getting an update notification. This is a refresh of RC, with a whole lot of improvements and fixes (based on your feedback), and a selection of features that didn’t quite make the initial RC release.
March 29, 2016Mar 29, 201603/29/16My name is Laurent and I recently moved from France to join the Python team at Microsoft. Along with the rest of our team, I am responsible for maintaining the Azure Python SDK, and we are glad to announce the 2.0.0 RC2 version!
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November 8, 2018Nov 8, 201811/8/18Today we’re very excited to announce the availability of Data Science features in the Python extension for Visual Studio Code! With the addition of these features, you can now work with data interactively in Visual Studio Code, whether it is for exploring data or for incorporating machine learning models into applications, making Visual Studio Code an exciting new option for those who prefer an editor for data science tasks.
July 19, 2018Jul 19, 201807/19/18Next week is the EuroPython conference from July 23-29 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Microsoft is a platinum sponsor of EuroPython this year, and are looking forward to meeting you there! Be sure to come by our booth and check out our sessions.
July 18, 2018Jul 18, 201807/18/18Visual Studio has long been recognized for the quality of its IntelliSense (code analysis and suggestions) across all languages, and has had support for Python since 2011. We are pleased to announce that we are going to be making the Python support available to other tools as the Microsoft Python Language Server.
May 31, 2018May 31, 201805/31/18Microsoft was a keystone-level sponsor of PyCon US 2018 this year, which took place in Cleveland Ohio from May 9-17th. We had a great time interacting with and learning from the community, and we had a lot of fun! In this post we’ll share our experience and useful links from the conference.
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February 22, 2019Feb 22, 201902/22/19Across Visual Studio Code and Azure Notebooks, January brought numerous exciting updates to the AI and Machine Learning tooling for Python! This roll-up blog post recaps the latest products updates and the upcoming events for AI and Machine Learning.
November 8, 2018Nov 8, 201811/8/18Today we’re very excited to announce the availability of Data Science features in the Python extension for Visual Studio Code! With the addition of these features, you can now work with data interactively in Visual Studio Code, whether it is for exploring data or for incorporating machine learning models into applications, making Visual Studio Code an exciting new option for those who prefer an editor for data science tasks.
March 21, 2016Mar 21, 201603/21/16Ever get the feeling your users aren’t that happy with your project? We all get those issues that are real downers on our repository. So I thought, let’s take these issues and make something fun. Using the Text Analytics Service and the WordCloud Python package,
March 8, 2016Mar 8, 201603/8/16https://notebooks.azure.com/library/rJUgQ81mnpo
In 3 months, Python 3 will be better supported than Python 2.
Are you using Python 3 for your development? It has been out for 7+ years at this point. So, if you aren’t using it, why not? Since December of 2008,
Python
January 7, 2020Jan 7, 202001/7/20We are happy to announce that the January 2020 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This release includes Kernel selection in Jupyter notebooks, performance improvements of Jupyter notebooks editor , auto-activation of the terminal on load (thanks Igor Aleksanov!) and fixes to rebuilding ctags.
September 20, 2019Sep 20, 201909/20/19DjangoCon 2019 is happening next week in San Diego and Microsoft is pleased to be supporting the conference as Gold sponsors this year. We will have some members from our Python team, our Azure Cloud Advocates, and the PostgreSQL team. Be sure to check out our talks from our team during the conference, and come by the booth!
August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19Today, we are releasing Visual Studio 2019 (16.3 Preview 2), which contains newly-added pytest support a re-worked unittest experience for Python users. Our latest updates apply to both Python Projects and Open Folder workspaces. In this post, we'll take a closer look at this new experience.
May 21, 2019May 21, 201905/21/19Today the Windows team announced the May 2019 Update for Windows 10. In this post we’re going to look at what we, Microsoft’s Python team, have done to make Python easier to install on Windows by helping the community publish to the Microsoft Store and,
April 25, 2019Apr 25, 201904/25/19Next week we (the Python team here at Microsoft) will be at the PyCon conference in Cleveland, OH on May 1-9, and are looking forward to meeting you! Come join our workshops, then stop by our booth to get some great swag and check out the latest in Visual Studio Code, Azure, Azure Pipelines, and Python on Windows.
June 14, 2018Jun 14, 201806/14/18In this post, we're going to walk through a sample project that demonstrates scripting a C++ application with Python using CPython, PyBind11 and Visual Studio 2017. We show how you can wrap a C++ class with Python and how to use cross-language debugging and type-hints to get a development experience that only Visual Studio can offer.
May 2, 2018May 2, 201805/2/18We are pleased to announce that the April 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available from the marketplace and the gallery. You can download the Python extension from the marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code.
May 2, 2018May 2, 201805/2/18Next week are the Microsoft Build conference in Seattle, WA on May 7-9, and the PyCon conference in Cleveland, OH on May 9-17, and we (the Microsoft Python team) will be at both conferences looking forward to meeting you! If you are going to either of these conferences,
April 18, 2018Apr 18, 201804/18/18Note: This post was originally published with Visual Studio 15.7 Preview 4, it has been updated to reflect the latest as of Visual Studio 15.7 RTM.
We have released the 15.7 update to Visual Studio 2017. You will see a notification in Visual Studio within the next few days,
March 13, 2018Mar 13, 201803/13/18Note: this blog post was first released for 15.7 Preview 1, and has been updated to reflect the latest as of 15.7 Preview 3
We have released the third preview of our next update to Visual Studio 2017. If you already have the preview installed you will see a notification in Visual Studio within the next few days,
Visual Studio
August 13, 2019Aug 13, 201908/13/19Today, we are releasing Visual Studio 2019 (16.3 Preview 2), which contains newly-added pytest support a re-worked unittest experience for Python users. Our latest updates apply to both Python Projects and Open Folder workspaces. In this post, we'll take a closer look at this new experience.
January 23, 2019Jan 23, 201901/23/19Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2, which contains new features for Python developers to improve the experience for managing Python environments and enable you to work with Python code without having to create a Python project. We’ve also enabled Python support for Visual Studio Live Share. In this post we’ll take a closer look at these new features.
August 14, 2018Aug 14, 201808/14/18We have released the 15.8 update to Visual Studio 2017. You will see a notification in Visual Studio within the next few days, or you can download the new installer from visualstudio.com. In this post, we're going to look at some of the new features we have added for Python developers: IntelliSense with type shed definitions, faster debugging, and support for Python 3.7.
July 18, 2018Jul 18, 201807/18/18Visual Studio has long been recognized for the quality of its IntelliSense (code analysis and suggestions) across all languages, and has had support for Python since 2011. We are pleased to announce that we are going to be making the Python support available to other tools as the Microsoft Python Language Server.
December 7, 2017Dec 7, 201712/7/17Today we have released the first preview of our next update to Visual Studio 2017. You will see a notification in Visual Studio within the next few days, or you can download the new installer from visualstudio.com.
In this post, we’re going to take a look at some of the new features we have added for Python developers.
April 17, 2017Apr 17, 201704/17/17This week we’ve released a preview of the next update to Visual Studio. It has all of the improvements that were released recently in VS 2017 Update 1, and also the earliest previews of VS 2017 Update 2.
For Python support,
March 22, 2017Mar 22, 201703/22/17Last week we announced that the Python development workload is available now in Visual Studio Preview, and briefly covered some of the new improvements in Visual Studio 2017. In this post, we are going to go into more depth on the improvements for the Python Interactive Window.
March 7, 2017Mar 7, 201703/7/17Today is launch day for Visual Studio 2017, and you can see all the info and join the live event at launch.visualstudio.com. But over in this corner of our world, we are announcing something special.
As you likely know, once software is officially released,
Visual Studio Code
November 18, 2019Nov 18, 201911/18/19 We are pleased to announce that the November 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we closed 60 issues, including an add imports “quick fix” when using the Python Language Server, Altair plot support and line numbers in the Notebook Editor. Keep on reading to learn more!
October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19We are pleased to announce that the October 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we addressed 97 issues, including native editing of Jupyter Notebooks, a button to run a Python file in the terminal, and linting and import improvements with the Python Language Server.
October 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19Today, we're excited to announce the first release of native Jupyter notebook support inside VS Code through the Python extension that shipped today! This brings together the interactivity of Jupyter Notebooks and the power of VS Code, offering a brand-new way for data scientists and developers to experiment and work with data efficiently.
September 4, 2019Sep 4, 201909/4/19We are pleased to announce that the September 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This was a short release where we closed 35 issues, including improvements to the Python Language Server and to Jupyter Notebook cell debugging, as well as detection of virtual environment creation.
August 6, 2019Aug 6, 201908/6/19We are pleased to announce that the August 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we closed a total of 76 issues including Jupyter Notebook cell debugging, introducing an Insiders program, improvements to auto-indentation and to the Python Language Server,
June 25, 2019Jun 25, 201906/25/19We are pleased to announce that the June 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we closed a total of 70 issues including a plot viewer with the Python Interactive window, parallel tests with pytest, and indentation of run selection in the terminal.
May 28, 2019May 28, 201905/28/19We are pleased to announce that the May 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we closed a total of 42 issues including IntelliSense in the Python Interactive Window and additional improvements to the Python Language Server. Check out the full list of improvements in our changelog.
May 2, 2019May 2, 201905/2/19Microsoft’s Python and Visual Studio Code team announced remote development in Visual Studio Code, enabling you to work in development setups where their code and tools are running remotely inside of docker containers, remote SSH hosts, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), while you still get a seamless experience locally.
April 23, 2019Apr 23, 201904/23/19We are pleased to announce that the April 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we have closed a total of 84 issues, including a Variable Explorer and Data Viewer, enhancements to debug configuration and additional improvements to the Python Language Server. Check out he full list of fixes and improvements in our changelog.
March 26, 2019Mar 26, 201903/26/19We are pleased to announce that the March 2019 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we closed 52 issues that includes Live Share support in the Python Interactive Window, support for installing packages with Poetry, improvements to the Python Language Server and to the Test Explorer.
