https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS/wiki/Using-IPython-with-PT...
note quite the cell by cell, markdown experience, but you get inline resizable graphs, !shell commands, etc. more integration is on its way. Same with VScode.
Like I mentioned, I've experimented with opening a notebook in a browser tab in VS, and I'd say it's passable while waiting on a real solution [0].
Somebody mentioned that PyCharm has notebook suppport, and that looks closer to what I want than just a REPL [1].
I've been using VS for years, from before I started using Python, and I still prefer to use it if I can. If I'm not mistaken you work on PVTS and left a message here around eight months ago about PVTS coming to VS Code. I really like and appreciate PVTS, is there any way you can update us on a time frame for when these updates to VS/VS Code will come, and what you have in the pipeline?
By the way, a lot of times I prefer the folder based projects in VS Code to the solutions in VS. I wouldn't mind if you could bring that to regular VS too.
[0] http://i.imgur.com/VGiS2Ac.png
[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2014/12/feature-spotlight...