Microsoft has written an Anaconda package manager extension for Visual Studio Code, allowing direct download of packages from inside the editor.

VS Code Now Appears as an Option from Anaconda Navigator (source: Anaconda Inc.). "For Anaconda users, VS Code is a great IDE choice on Windows, macOS, or Linux," Anaconda Inc. said in a post. "Free ...

Anaconda includes Microsoft's Visual Studio cross-platform code editor in its Python-based data science platform.

Release 5.1 of Anaconda, the data science and machine learning platform, now includes Visual Studio Code as an IDE. This is part of a wider collaborative effort between Anaconda Inc. and Microsoft.