Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code will ship as part of the popular Python data science platform Anaconda.

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

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.

By using Anaconda to construct Python and R analytical models, you can test them on sample data in Visual Studio Code before embedding them in an Azure ML pipeline.

The addition of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) expands its support for the latest release of the Python data science platform, Anaconda 5.1. The Python platform has attracted more than 4.5 ...