[chupapuma]

I am a developer on PTVS.

TL;DR - We do have project files but are working to remove that necessity.

First, we do have some VS specific files, namely SLN and PYPROJ files. These are unfortunately needed for us to manage your project. We do hope to not need these in the future but we currently need them due to the project system we use in Visual Studio. We do hope to replace this with a different solution eventually.

The good news is these files are easily generated and do not need to be saved. If you go to File>New>Project>Python>From Existing Python Code you can generate these by giving a folder.

Second, As for the SSH troubles, CMD has been given an overhaul for Win10 and I suspect you are seeing the effect of that. I know they handle encodings differently now so that is probably the issue. I know I have seen some things render a bit strange since my transition to Win10 last week.