Learn how to install and set up Visual Studio Code for Python development with this easy step-by-step guide. Perfect for beginners and seasoned developers!

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.

The updated Python extension is available for download from Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) marketplace, where it's currently the most popular programming language by a long mile.

The Visual Studio Code dev team added new Python tutorials as part of the regular monthly update, this one for March 2020, bringing the open-source, cross-platform code editor to version 1.44.

Setting up Visual Studio Code Even though Visual Studio Code is a Microsoft product, it’s available for all three major development platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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

Microsoft added new Web app tutorials -- covering Django and Flask -- to its Python documentation for Visual Studio and its open source little cousin, the cross-platform Visual Studio Code editor.