A lifetime license for Microsoft’s latest IDE is only $30 right now

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Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Keeps Adding VS 2026 MCP Functionality to VS 2022, but Not Much Else

Microsoft now ships Azure MCP tools as part of the Azure development workload in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14.30 or higher. Other MCP-related items that later appeared in the Visual Studio 2022 17 ...
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Everything you need to code, debug & deploy—Visual Studio Pro is $28

TL;DR: Scoop up Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 for just $27.97 (MSRP $499). Code smarter, faster, and more efficiently with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022, now just $27.97 (MSRP ...