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Python in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2

January 23, 2019 Jan 23, 2019 01/23/19
Dan Taylor
Today 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.

Python in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8

August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18
Dan Taylor
We 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.

Introducing the Python Language Server

July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18
Steve Dower
Visual 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. It is available first today in...

What’s new for Python in Visual Studio 2017 15.6 Preview 1

December 7, 2017 Dec 7, 2017 12/7/17
Steve Dower
Today 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. As always, the preview ...

Python tools in your language

April 17, 2017 Apr 17, 2017 04/17/17
Steve Dower
This 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, probably our most significant update is that we are now available in all fourteen languages that Visual Studio ships ...

Interactive Windows in VS 2017

March 22, 2017 Mar 22, 2017 03/22/17
Steve Dower
Last 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. These are currently available in Visual Studio Preview, and ...

Released: Python support in Visual Studio 2017

March 7, 2017 Mar 7, 2017 03/7/17
Steve Dower
Today 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, it normally gets less frequent updates. For those of us who love getting new toys, ...