Dan Taylor

Principal PM Manager, Python & AI Tools

Dan Taylor is the Program Manager for Python developer tools at Microsoft. He has been at Microsoft for 7 years and has previously worked on performance improvements to .NET and Visual Studio, as well as profiling and diagnostic tools in Visual Studio and Azure.

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Python in Visual Studio Code – March 2018 Release

March 29th, 2018
We are pleased to announce that the March 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available from the marketplace and the gallery. You can the download the Python extension from the marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. You can learn more about Python support in Visual ...

Python in Visual Studio 15.7 Preview

March 13th, 2018
Note: 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, or you can download the ...

Python in Visual Studio Code – Feb 2018 Release

March 8th, 2018
We are pleased to announce that the February 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available from the marketplace and the gallery. You can the download the Python extension from the marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. You can learn more about Python support in ...

Python in Visual Studio Code – Jan 2018 Release

February 1st, 2018
We’re pleased to announce the January 2018 release for the Microsoft Python extension for Visual Studio code is now available. You can the download the Microsoft Python extension for VS Code from the marketplace, or install it directly from the extension gallery in Visual Studio Code. You can learn more about Python support in Visual ...

Python extension for Visual Studio Code version 0.9.0 now available

December 14th, 2017
We’re excited to announce our first update to the Microsoft Python extension for Visual Studio Code. In this release, we’ve added additional support for conda environments and fixed numerous bugs in the editor and debugger. Support for Conda Environments Conda environments are now automatically detected from the Anaconda root location. You...