Hands-On Machine Learning with Azure

Set up your Python environment in Visual Studio

Visual Studio needs to be configured so that it is using Python with Microsoft ML Server. This is the first step, and it only needs to be conducted once.

In Visual Studio, select the View | Other Windows | Python Environments menu command.

We are going to create a cookiecutter Python project. To do this, firstly, we need to install cookiecutter. 

Open Command Prompt, and type in the following command:

easy_install --user cookiecutter

Then, we can proceed to use the cookiecutter functionality in Visual Studio to get off to a great start with Python and Visual Studio. 

In this exercise, the code will come from a Microsoft repository, which is stored on GitHub.

1. In Visual Studio, choose File | ...