Visual Studio Blog

The official source of product insight from the Visual Studio Engineering Team

Data and Analytics - Visual Studio Blog

Top News from April 2015

May 7, 2015 May 7, 2015 05/7/15
Visual Studio Blog
This top trending post is a collection of what we think are some of the top stories in April. This is our third such post (top news from February 2015, top news from March 2015) and we would love to hear your feedback. Are these posts interesting and informational? Do you have other blogs or articles to share with us? Let us know by leaving a ...

PyCon 2015 in review

April 22, 2015 Apr 22, 2015 04/22/15
Visual Studio Blog
A couple weeks ago we headed off to PyCon 2015. If you missed PyCon, there is another opportunity to come see us. PyData Seattle is hosted at Microsoft’s Redmond campus in July 24-26. The call for proposals and early-bird registration are still open, so if you’re a data scientist using Python or simply interested in learning about ...

PyCon 2015: April 8-16

April 6, 2015 Apr 6, 2015 04/6/15
Visual Studio Blog
Many Visual Studio blog readers probably don’t know that Visual Studio has great support for Python or that Azure Machine Learning lets you write in Python, and I’m betting even fewer of you know that our Python Tools team is heading to PyCon Montreal. We’ll be there to hang out with other people who love Python as much as us...

Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.2 Beta Released

March 16, 2015 Mar 16, 2015 03/16/15
Visual Studio Blog
It’s been a while since we released Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.1 (PTVS), and in that time the team has been working on Azure Machine Learning and the Python Client library. But we haven’t forgotten about PTVS. We’ve been working on some of the most popular requests from users, and today we are releasing the beta of PTVS...

Top News from February 2015

March 5, 2015 Mar 5, 2015 03/5/15
Visual Studio Blog
The Visual Studio team takes great effort to ensure that our developer community is engaged and informed through various social networks, including channels on Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. and as part of the process we gain insights into what you enjoy through your retweets, Facebook likes and shares, and other public opinions of our ...

Python Tools 2.1 for Visual Studio

October 15, 2014 Oct 15, 2014 10/15/14
Visual Studio Blog
The final release of Python Tools 2.1 for Visual Studio (PTVS) is available for download. PTVS is available for Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, and Visual Studio 2013. In addition to the other features listed below, PTVS 2.1 supports the free Visual Studio Express for Web and Express for Windows Desktop editions as well as Visual ...

Visual Studio 2013 New Editor Features

July 15, 2013 Jul 15, 2013 07/15/13
Visual Studio Blog
[10/31/2013 : Updates to these features can be found in the latest post on Updates to Visual Studio 2013 Editor Enhancements] In Visual Studio 2013, we have introduced new features that boost productivity and save time when working inside the Editor. Some of these are new features and some are the most popular extensions from Productivity ...

Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance Part #2

March 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012 03/12/12
Visual Studio Blog
Welcome back to part 2 of the Visual Studio 11 Beta Performance series.  This week’s topic is Solution Load.  We received a great deal of feedback from you clearly telling us that it takes too long to get into your code when loading solutions.  I would like to introduce Nathan Halstead, from the Visual Studio Pro Team, whose information ...