Install VS Code and the Python extension If you haven’t already set up and familiarized yourself with Visual Studio Code, that’s your first step. Check out InfoWorld’s guide to setting up VS ...

Microsoft's dev team for Python in Visual Studio Code has simplified the project setup experience for its main extension along with many other improvements in the regular monthly update, this for ...

In the regular monthly update to Python tooling for Visual Studio Code, Microsoft announced an improved setup experience for Jupyter notebooks, along with new inlay type hints for the Pylance language ...

VS Code 1.44 also brings the latest work Microsoft has been doing to improve remote development via its Remote Development extension pack, which allows users to open folders and set up a full ...

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight IDE from Microsoft for developers to write code in a variety of languages like Python, PHP and more. It has inbuilt support for Git as well.

VS Code supports code highlighting for Python without this extension. However, if you will be working with Python, you should install this extension.