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

For the first time, Python has cracked the top three in the TIOBE index of programming language popularity, helping to demonstrate why Microsoft has fully embraced the language in its Visual Studio ...

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

Microsoft recently announced that the November 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available for download from the Marketplace, or directly from the extension ...

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 ...

Microsoft recently announced an update to the Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) -- PTVS 2.0 alpha. This update to the tools provides new IntelliSense and debugging features, and adds improved ...

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 the standard features found in other VS supported ...

Broader compiler support is driving a resurgence in interest in the nearly 35-year-old C++ programming language, which replaces Python in Tiobe's top 3.