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Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework is an open-source development kit for building AI agents and multi-agent workflows for .NET and Python. It brings together and extends ideas from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen projects, combining their strengths while adding new capabilities.

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A VS Code extension that simplifies generative AI app development by bringing together cutting-edge AI development tools and models from Azure AI Foundry Catalog and other catalogs like Hugging Face.

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Don't leave your VS Code editor when managing Azure Machine Learning resources, training models, debugging ML experiments and schema-based language support.

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Cosmos DB code gallery is your best source for patterns and content for Azure Cosmos DB.

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A code-centric data viewing and cleaning tool that is integrated into VS Code and VS Code Jupyter Notebooks.

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Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.

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See how Playwright's cross-browser, cross-platform open-source framework enables reliable end-to-end testing for modern Python web apps.

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Using GitHub Copilot with Python

GitHub Copilot is an AI pair programmer that offers autocomplete-style suggestions as you code in Python.

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Explore and analyze data with Python

Data exploration and analysis are at the core of data science. Data scientists require skills in programming languages like Python to explore, visualize, and manipulate data.

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Use advanced GitHub Copilot features with a Python application.

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Pyright

Pyright is a full-featured, standards-based static type checker for Python. It is designed for high performance and can be used with large Python source bases.

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MarkItDown

MarkItDown is a lightweight Python utility for converting various files to Markdown for use with LLMs and related text analysis pipelines.

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PyRIT

Python Risk Identification Tool for generative AI (PyRIT) is an open-source framework built to empower security professionals and engineers to proactively identify risks in generative AI systems.

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Microsoft Agent Framework

A framework for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents and multi-agent workflows with support for Python and .NET.

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BitNet

bitnet.cpp is the official inference framework for 1-bit LLMs (for example, BitNet b1.58).

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GraphRAG

The GraphRAG project is a data pipeline and transformation suite that is designed to extract meaningful, structured data from unstructured text using the power of LLMs.

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Azure Command-Line Interface

A great cloud needs great tools; we're excited to introduce Azure CLI, our next generation multi-platform command-line experience for Azure.

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Azure SDK for Python

This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Python.

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Playwright for Python

Playwright is a Python library to automate Chromium, Firefox and WebKit browsers with a single API. Playwright delivers automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

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Recent Python blog posts

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Jahnvi Thakkar  •  April 07, 2026
Write SQL Your Way: Dual Parameter Style Benefits in mssql-python

Reviewed by: Sumit Sarabhai If you’ve been writing SQL in Python, you already know the debate: positional parameters (?) or named parameters (%(name)s)? Some developers swear by the conciseness of positional. Others prefer the clarity of named. With mssql-python, you no longer need to choose – we support both.  We’ve added dual parameter style support to mssql-python, enabling both qmark and pyformat parameter styles in Python […] The post Write SQL Your Way: Dual Parameter Style Benefits in mssql-python appeared first on Microsoft for Python Developers Blog.

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Vedha Ranganathan  •  April 02, 2026
Python in Visual Studio Code – March 2026 Release
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Vedha Ranganathan  •  February 18, 2026
Python Environments Extension for VS Code
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Luciana Abud  •  November 13, 2025
Python in Visual Studio Code – November 2025 Release
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Luciana Abud  •  October 10, 2025
Python in Visual Studio Code – October 2025 Release
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