Python support for Visual Studio on ARM64

[vsfeedback]

This issue has been moved from a ticket on Developer Community.

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The ARM64 version of Visual Studio currently does not support Python development. Attempting to open .pyproj files will always result in an error.

Python 3.11 for Windows now officially supports ARM64 and there are native binaries available on python.org, so I assume adding support to Visual Studio shouldn't be too difficult.

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Original Comments

Feedback Bot on 12/18/2022, 08:49 PM:

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[toffee-makes-things]

Can agree that this is a feature that should be implemented

[gramster]

Right now our priority is getting the Python ecosystem itself bootstrapped properly on Windows ARM64. While we have ARM64 builds of CPython, many packages simply aren't available as wheels for ARM64 yet. We are focusing our resources on assisting that effort first.

[khmyznikov]

@gramster @judej any news about this? Can't build scipy for example due lack of fortran compiler...

[cwebster-99]

Moving this issue to discussion as teams are still working on getting the Python ecosystem bootstrapped properly on Windows ARM64 before work can be done for PTVS support.

[Battant]

Hello,

I just test windows 11 pro for arm with vmware Fusion on wy macbook pro m1

It seem that python visual studo plugin is not avilabble on visual studio Community 2022 for windows arm

Is it possible that python will avilable in future version for arm ?

Thans for your comments

Best regards

[phisqb]

Hi there,

Any news on this or on an expected date for it? It's been almost a year and a half since the original post. You can't really use VS Pro 2022 very easily for python development on Surface Pro 11. If anyone has a simple workaround, it would be appreciated. All my environments and everything else were set up via VS Pro 2022 for multiple web applications. I was thinking of using WSL 2 as a temporary solution. Anyone else have any luck with something like that?

Thanks!

[Battant]

Hello,

My computer is a MacBook Pro I just test windows for ARM.

Because windows for arm should be develop in the futur for so windows support more architecture and visual studio is more accessible with touch screen and support zoom multitouch screan like IPad Pro with Microsoft RD client (com in soon windows app). I'm interested to test and use visual studio witch python for windows ARM on my MacBook Pro m1 in the futur.

Best regards

Battant