Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is currently available for $29.97 (MSRP $499.99) through Oct. 11. The 64-bit integrated development environment combines cross-platform development capabilities with AI-assisted coding, collaboration tools, and support for demanding development workloads. Visual Studio 2026 supports 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 also supports building, debugging, and testing.NET and C++ applications targeting Windows, Li