Python

Come meet Microsoft at PyCon 2019!

April 25, 2019 Apr 25, 2019 04/25/19

Dan Taylor

Next 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.

Embedding Python in a C++ project with Visual Studio

June 14, 2018 Jun 14, 2018 06/14/18

Steve Dower

In 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.

Python at Microsoft: Meet us at Build and PyCon US!

May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 05/2/18

Dan Taylor

Next 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, come by our booth and check out our sessions. If you can’t make it, don...

Python in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7

April 18, 2018 Apr 18, 2018 04/18/18

Dan Taylor

Note: 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, or you can download the new installer from visualstudio.com. In ...

Python in Visual Studio 15.7 Preview

March 13, 2018 Mar 13, 2018 03/13/18

Dan Taylor

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 ...

Visual Studio Code is now shipping with Anaconda!

February 15, 2018 Feb 15, 2018 02/15/18

John Lam

For everyone from enterprise programmers to data scientists, Python is one of the most popular dynamic languages for software development. Anaconda, the most popular Python data science platform, provides 6 million users with a streamlined Python environment on Windows, Mac or Linux. And starting today, Visual Studio Code, Microsoft's free and...