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Python in Visual Studio Code – November 2024 Release
The November 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include docstring template generation with Pylance, Fold/Unfold All Docstrings commands, a variable view with the Native REPL and more!
Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2024 Release
The October 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include Python test coverage support and a default Python problem matcher. Keep reading to learn more!
Announcing the new Python Data Science Extension Pack for VS Code
We're thrilled to announce the launch of the new Python Data Science Extension Pack for Visual Studio Code! This powerful pack brings together some of the most popular and essential VS Code extensions, making it your one-stop shop for all things data science in Python. What's Inside? Our extension pack is designed to streamline your data science journey from start to finish. Whether you're preparing data, conducting analysis, visualizing results, or building and training machine learning models, we've got you covered. This Data Science extension pack currently includes four extensions: ...
Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2024 Release
The September 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include Django test support. Keep reading to learn more!
Announcing the General Availability of the VS Code extension for Azure Machine Learning
Machine learning and artificial intelligence are transforming the world as we know it. With the power of data, you will have countless opportunities to create something new, unique, and exciting. Whether you are a seasoned data scientist or a curious beginner, you need a platform that can help you build, train, deploy, and manage your machine learning models with ease and efficiency. Azure Machine Learning has always been the backbone for machine learning tasks, and we want to further help you in your machine learning journey by improving the way you write code. The VS Code extension for Azure Machine Learning...
Python in Visual Studio Code – August 2024 Release
The August 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include improved Python discovery using python environment tools, inline variable values with the python debugger, and improvements to the VS Code native REPL. Keep reading to learn more!
Python in Visual Studio Code – July 2024 Release
The July 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include a new tool for more performant environment discovery, improved support for reStructuredText docstrings, and community contributed Pixi support. Keep reading to learn more!
Python in Visual Studio Code – June 2024 Release
The June 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code are now available. This month's updates include an experimental Python REPL with Intellisense and syntax highlighting, and pytest improvements on the testing rewrite. Keep reading to learn more!
Announcing Data Wrangler: Code-centric viewing and cleaning of tabular data in Visual Studio Code
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of the Data Wrangler extension for Visual Studio Code! Data Wrangler is a free extension that offers data viewing and cleaning that is directly integrated into VS Code and the Jupyter extension. It provides a rich user interface to view and analyze your data, show insightful column statistics and visualizations, and automatically generate Pandas code as you clean and transform the data. We want to thank all the early adopters who tried out the extension preview over the past year, as your valuable feedback has been crucial to this release. With thi...
