Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 Is Only $29.97

What happened

The 64-bit integrated development environment combines cross-platform development capabilities with AI-assisted coding, collaboration tools, and support for demanding development workloads. Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is currently available for $29.97 (MSRP $499.99) through Oct. Microsoft is a software development and software company based in Redmond, and its products and services include Microsoft Windows.

Visual Studio 2026 provides support for several approaches to application development. Developers can use.NET MAUI to build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications or Blazor to create web interfaces in C#.

The IDE (the program a developer writes and runs code in) also provides support for building, debugging, and testing.NET and C++ applications targeting Windows, Linux, and containers. Hot Reload allows developers to apply code changes to.NET and C++ applications while they're running.

Key facts

• Visual Studio 2026 — support: several approaches to application development
• The IDE also — support: building, debugging, and testing.NET and C++ applications targeting Windows, Linux, and containers