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Python in Visual Studio Code – December 2018 Release

December 13, 2018 Dec 13, 2018 12/13/18
Dan Taylor
We are pleased to announce that the December 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This release was a short release, where we primarily focused on two top-requested features for the data science experience shipped in November: remote Jupyter support and export Python files as Jupyter Notebooks. We have also fixed many issues reported on GitHub, and you can see the full list in our changelog.

Python in Visual Studio Code – November 2018 Release

November 29, 2018 Nov 29, 2018 11/29/18
Dan Taylor
We are pleased to announce that the November 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. This release was a quality focused release, we have closed a total of 28 issues, improving startup performance and fixing various bugs related to interpreter detection and Jupyter support. Keep on reading to learn more!

Data Science with Python in Visual Studio Code

November 8, 2018 Nov 8, 2018 11/8/18
Rong Lu
Today 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.

Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2018 Release

November 8, 2018 Nov 8, 2018 11/8/18
Dan Taylor
We are pleased to announce that the October 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we have closed a total of 49 issues, including Jupyter support: import notebooks and run code cells in a Python Interactive window, use new virtual environments without having to restart, code completions in the debug console window, improved completions in language server: recognition of namedtuple, and generic types.

Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2018 Release

October 9, 2018 Oct 9, 2018 10/9/18
Dan Taylor
We are pleased to announce that the September 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we have closed a total of 45 issues, including automatic activation of environments in the terminal, support for Python environments in split terminals, debugger support for the breakpoint() built-in, improved Go To Definition and Find References in the Python Language Server, reduced CPU and Memory consumption in the Python Language Server.

Python in Visual Studio Code – August 2018 Release

September 5, 2018 Sep 5, 2018 09/5/18
Dan Taylor
We are pleased to announce that the August 2018 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. In this release we have closed a total of 38 issues including the stable release of our ptvsd 4 debugger, improvements to the language server preview, and other fixes.

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.

Come see us at EuroPython 2018!

July 19, 2018 Jul 19, 2018 07/19/18
Dan Taylor
Next 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. If you can’t make it, don’t worry, we’ll be sharing the content from the conference on our Python ...

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...

Python in Visual Studio Code – June & July 2018 Release

July 18, 2018 Jul 18, 2018 07/18/18
Brett Cannon
We are pleased to announce that the June & July 2018 releases of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available from the marketplace and the gallery. Between these two releases we have closed a total of 156 issues including introducing a new experimental language server and gevent support in our experimental debugger.