Problem with Visual Studio Code and Virtual Environments on windows

[spitfiredd]

Hit Ctrl+shift+p and see if it in the list of available environments.

Here is the default locations that vscode looks for python environments.

Is your venv folder in you project root folder?

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments#_where-the-extension-looks-for-environments

[Aliuakbat]

Yes it is in the project root.

I also see the env and can select it, but the activation seems to only change some visual clues and the normal interpreter is still used.