If you want to setup and use Deepseek-R1 in Visual Studio Code, follow the steps mentioned in this tutorial.

To do so, open Visual Studio Code and click on the Extensions icon. Now, search for “Python” and install Microsoft’s published Python extension.

More important, Markdown functionality becomes portable. "With this language server, we're making most of VS Code's built-in Markdown language tooling -- everything from document outlines, to smart ...

IDG Hundreds of Visual Studio Code extensions in the marketplace promise “code generation” or “AI,” but only a fraction of them actually generate code based on machine learning.