Installing ipykernel fails with venv environment

[rchiodo]

On a machine with an already working jupyter, I did the following:

1. Cleaned out VS code and all extensions
2. Ran a cell with the working jupyter
3. Installed python through Windows store
4. Installed a virtual environment using 'venv'
5. Opened VS code and selected new 'venv'
6. Tried to run a cell

Expected Result:
Ipykernel is installed

Actual Result:
Ipykernel looks like it's installed and then VS code sits there waiting. Looking at the console output I can see that ipykernel didn't really work:

[I 09:47:26.216 NotebookApp] KernelRestarter: restarting kernel (3/5), new random ports
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\rchiodo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "C:\Users\rchiodo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\rchiodo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ipykernel_launcher.py", line 15, in <module>
    from ipykernel import kernelapp as app
  File "C:\Users\rchiodo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .connect import *
  File "C:\Users\rchiodo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\connect.py", line 13, in <module>
    from IPython.core.profiledir import ProfileDir
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'IPython'
[I 09:47:29.287 NotebookApp] KernelRestarter: restarting kernel (4/5), new random ports
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\rchiodo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "C:\Users\rchiodo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "C:\Users\rchiodo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ipykernel_launcher.py", line 15, in <module>
    from ipykernel import kernelapp as app
  File "C:\Users\rchiodo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\__init__.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .connect import *
  File "C:\Users\rchiodo\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\lib\site-packages\ipykernel\connect.py", line 13, in <module>
    from IPython.core.profiledir import ProfileDir
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'IPython'

[rchiodo]

Installing ipython manually into the environment doesn't seem to fix it either.

[DonJayamanne]

Issue has been open for almost 1.5 yrs and we've got a few duplicates.
Created by internal user,
Also Python 3.6 will be going out of support in December, hence closing this issue.