Microsoft is making available to Python developers a free, open-source add-on to its Visual Studio suite.

Package Management for Python Tools for Visual Studio Microsoft is continuing its efforts to support Python in Visual Studio. Still in beta, Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.2 (PTVS) brings more of t ...

The PTVS 2.0 alpha is now live and available for installation. PTVS is an open source, free plug-in that allows for Python developing inside Visual Studio. It supports a variety of Python ...

Microsoft is continuing to bang the AI drum with its developer tools, with its latest announcement that VS Code is shipping as part of the Anaconda Python distribution.

Microsoft plans to extend IntelliSense code analysis for Python to tools beyond Visual Studio, using its Python Language Server. IntelliSense provides autocompletions for variables, functions, and ...