I installed VS Code today and created a very simple jupyter notebook which runs without any errors, but does not render the LaTex in VS Code even after installing the LaTex Workshop extension.
When I run the same notebook directly in jupyter, it renders fine.
This is the code from the markdown cell in question:
### This is another markdown cell with Latex
This equation defines eigenvalues and eigenvectors: $Mx = \lambda x$
another equation:
$\begin{align*}
(a+b)^2 = a^2+2ab+b^2
\end{align*}$
In jupyter, the cell looks like this:
In VS Code, the cell looks like this: